to uncover the intensity of feeling in her poetry.” While studying Elizabeth Bishop's poetry, it was remarkably clear that Bishop's carefully judged use of language aids the reader to uncover the intensity of feeling in her poetry. In the six poems in which I studied by this poet, we can see how Bishop used the languages to her advantage in a way that helped the reader to uncover the intensity of feeling in her work. We can see the emotions in her poetry through a mix of language types and techniques
hardships of life that make us, and Elizabeth Bishop has seen her fair share. During her lifetime Bishop, translated the upheaval she faced as a child into her poetry. Her work often mirrors the agony experienced in her young life and it is this pain that allowed her to reflect upon the basic human conditions, such as grief and longing, that afflict all mankind. In her poems “Anaphora”, “One Art”, and “Insomnia” Bishop relates an emotion that is universally known (Bishop). Bishop’s early years were not
To illustrate this point, the illustration point will be from the poem at fish houses by Elizabeth Bishop and the Negro speaks of rivers by Langston Hughes. Elizabeth Bishop in the poem at fish houses, she uses the theme of identity in presenting the place with her emotional feeling, the way she presented the place, the sea, and the color of the area all of these reveled who she