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The loneliness of Elizabeth Bishop
- smacktoward 9y agoA fascinating profile of a poet with whose work I was not familiar. Thanks for posting it! If you were also unfamiliar with Bishop and would like to read some of her works, the Poetry Foundation has a bunch of her poems online here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/elizabeth-bishop https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/elizabeth-bishop
- firasd 9y agoHer poem 'One Art' is a famous villanelle but a couple years ago I came across 'Filling Station' and really liked it. One Art: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art Filling Station: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52193/filling-station https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52193/filling-station
- mcguire 9y ago"Alcohol could saturate the pain, but never take it away." Saturate?
- lisper 9y agoThis is what happens when one writer writes about another writer and tries too hard to sound original.
- igravious 9y agoInventive language. Alcohol is a liquid. To wet completely is to saturate. Implication is over-use of alcohol. Poetic licence. Tried to overcome the pain with alcohol. Avoids cliché. But yes, non-standard use certainly. Don't get too hung up on it. I've always liked The Fish https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-fish/ https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-fish/ Particluarly, “ I looked into his eyes which were far larger than mine but shallower, and yellowed, the irises backed and packed with tarnished tinfoil seen through the lenses of old scratched isinglass. ”
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