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Elizabeth Bishop
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Mind Map on Elizabeth Bishop, created by rogerwaters on 19/02/2014.
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Elizabeth Bishop
The Fish
Close observation, detailed description
'Coarse white fish'
Enhances descriptive qualities
Triumph of adversity
Vivid and realistic
Alliteration and assonance add musical qualities
'Shapes like full blown roses' sense of awe
'Backed and packed with tarnished tinfoiil'
1st Person: 'I caught', 'I looked' etc
Immediacy and makes the reader feel closely involved
Simple and direct language
'I caught a tremendous fish'
Adjective shows her excitement
Tremendous
'Battered, venerable and homely' suggest
Sympathy and admiration
Repetition highlights the triumph
'Rainbow Rainbow Rainbow'
Admiration for fish and what it represents
Remarkable eye for detail
Vivid verbal painting
'ancient wallpaper'
Less pleasant: 'Tiny white sea-lices' 'Frightening gills'
Tone: Awe and respect
'I admired its sullen jaw'
5 fish lines symbolise struggle agaiinst adversity
broke..crimped..broke..got..away
The Filling Station
Endurance of human spirit
Isolation is relatable
precise detail
beauty in the most unlikely things
Startling metaphors, 'clouds of hay', 'pitchforks, faint forked lightenings'
Personification, the first star came to warm
The Prodigal
Love and beauty can be found even in the midst of filth and ugliness
curious poet
unseen love has attempted to make it feel like home
'somebody loves us all'
somebody never named
Precise detailed description
photographic eye
'black translucency'
Ordinary language
'Be careful with that match'
fascinated by the filth
'oil soaked monkey suit', 'greasy sons' 'grease impregnated wickerwork'
reference to sons and father adds domestic dimension
greasy and grimy filling station
decorative touches in contrast with filth
comic book, begonia, daisy stitch' in doily
'Do they live in the FS?'
'Why oh why the doily!'
Conversational language
Touches of humour
Colloquial language 'a dirty dog' 'quite comfy'
'Oh it is dirty!'
sense of home
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