Elizabeth Bishop

NAAL Notes:

• Writes with a powerful sense of loss

• Compelled by landscapes

• Deep feeling in poems rises up out of direct and particular description

• Exile and travel were at the heart of her poems from the very start

• Influence of her long friendship with Robert Lowell, the poet, and their mutual regard for one another's work

PHAAL Notes:

• Poetry known for its close examination and witty description of objects

• Particular descriptions that lead to a sometimes visionary awareness

• Sometimes -- wry objectivity

• Often -- religious nature