Elizabeth Bishop and Her Poem "Filling Station" Elizabeth Bishop ’s skill as a poet can be clearly seen in the thought- provoking poem entitled Filling Station. She paints the different language levels of poetry with the skill of an artist-- she seems to have an eye for detail as she contrasts the dark and dim reference of a filling station to a more homey‚ pleasant atmosphere. Bishop aptly arranges her words and expressions through the language devices of voice and metaphor. In Filling
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vacation in Florida. The story focuses immediately on the grandmother‚ who wants to visit relatives in east Tennessee and who uses the escape of the Misfit‚ a murderer‚ from prison to try to persuade her son‚ Bailey‚ to change his mind. He refuses. The two grandchildren‚ John Wesley and June Star‚ are quickly characterized as smart alecks who nevertheless understand their grandmother and her motives very well. When the family sets out‚ the grandmother is resigned to making the best of things. She is first
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you left us mom. 7 long years. She has wanted to scream your name numerous times but both her and I knew that you wouldn’t respond." I said as I stood looking down at my mother’s grave. " I know that it’s harder for Sarah to get past this. Believe me mom I do." I said as I sniffled a bit. "There are times when she’ll come into my room and just tell me all her favorite memories of you. Like the time when you would make those Mickey Mouse shaped pancakes for her because she loved Mickey. Or how you
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My grandmothers house has a very special place in my heart. I lived with my grandmother for many years when I was little. Her house always seemed to have something about it that set it apart from all the rest. As you walk into the front door of her house you notice a long‚ slender stairway that led up into the main hallway of the house. The strong smell of cigarette smoke is quite evident when you reach this point. Yes‚ my grandmother did smoke. My grandmother’s house was always full of laughter
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when you didn’t know what to do? For me‚ my grandmother‚ Sheila‚ is that person. Sheila is extremely beautiful‚ she’s heavyset and she has curly‚ black and grey hair. There hasn’t been one time when I was in need‚ and she wasn’t there for me. My grandmother have always lived pretty close to where I live. All my life‚ my grandmother has been the nicest person. Even though she was the nicest person she could also be the meanest at times. My grandmother would get mad when things didn’t go her way
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Interestingly‚ the person who had the most impact on my life was my grandmother. My grandmother was a retired College Principal‚ but for me she was always my Grandmother. She taught me the kinds of things that school teachers never could teach in the classroom. Because my parents were at work and my grandmother was retired‚ I spent a lot of time with her. She was a mother‚ a grandparent and a teacher at the same time. She always prepared an interesting activity for the day. We visited museums‚ theatres
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My favourite poem is: Hope is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson I’ve never really had a favourite poem but this one connected with me. This is my favourite poem as it describes hope by using a powerful array of metaphors to enhance its effect. While it is true that many people all over the world live in extremely challenging and life threatening situations‚ leading hard lives in appalling conditions. What keeps people going in such circumstances is the glimmer of hope that
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In the poem “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop‚ the speaker’s attitude is reflected through the situations he has been through and the most evident one is his experience with loss. Through verse form and colloquial language. Bishop conveys the speakers attitude throughout the poem to be nonchalant‚ ultimately demonstrating that “The art of losing isn’t hard to master‚” even if it is the loss of a loved one. In the first fifteen lines‚ Bishop describes the attitude the speaker feels towards losing objects
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Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” uses villanelle as a poetic form in iambic pentameter. The poem is about loss. It presents loss as a discipline that‚ with training and dedication‚ the reader can get better at. The poem initially gives tips on how to adapt to loss and mentions items that can be replaced. But in the third stanza‚ the poem takes a turn and reveals feelings which change the detached tone from the first stanza. The speaker recommends to lose more and quicker‚ “Then practice losing farther
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In the poem “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop‚ it is evident that the speaker has experienced much loss. Through diction‚ syntax‚ and verse form‚ the relation between the speaker’s attitudes toward loss in lines 1-15 and lines 16-19 can be clearly seen as the poem progresses from the different losses of things‚ places‚ and lastly “you‚” her lover (16). Both attitudes admit that “the art of losing” can be mastered‚ however‚ they have different ideas on whether a loss is disastrous or not. In lines 1-15
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