When Elizabeth Bishop exchanges looks for visions in “Poem” (“About the size of an old-style dollar bill . . .”), she renews a Life long commitment to a language of seemingly transparent simplicity, one that privileges the articulation of the experience of the senses instead of the interior world of the psyche or the romantic impulse toward epiphany and the world of the spirit. The tropes of Bishop’s domestic, pastoral, or exotic landscapes serve knowledge only insofar as they cloak, while exteriorizing, the unspoken and inarticulate interior, refusing either to resolve or deconstruct the binary opposition. For some critics, this binding of experience in a restraining rhetoric, one that depersonalizes as it simplifies, has become a characteristically American manner. [download]
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