Order type: Essay
Subject: Literature
Order Description
Choose two poems by Elizabeth Bishop that we have studied this semester and discuss them using relevant ideas from one or two of the following chapters from Bennett and Royle – An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory: “Me,” “Eco,” or “Desire.”
The poems are: The Fish, At The Fishhouses, One Art or Crusoe in England.
Some of the relevant ideas are
Organize the analysis around a central argument or “thesis” and provide
textual evidence to support its claims.
Your Thesis/Argument should be a disputable claim. This means that other people can potentially disagree with it. If no one can disagree with your argument, then it is not a real argument.
The quotations below are only meant to guide you; you do not need to employ them if they are not relevant to your argument. You must use additional textual examples from the poems and Bennett and Royle to support your claims:
“One seal particularly/I have seen here evening after evening./He was curious about me.” (“At the Fishhouses” 73)
“The art of losing’s not too hard to master / though it may look like (Write it!) like
disaster.” (“One Art” 178)
“Friday was nice, and we were friends./If only he had been a woman!” “Crusoe in England” (p. 72)
“Like medals with their ribbons/frayed and wavering,/a five-haired beard of wisdom/trailing from his aching jaw.” “The Fish” (p. 50)
Some of the relevant themes/ideas: man vs nature (idea of anthropocentric) / women v men (sex/gender) / loneliness and desire.
In The Fish – can mention sound patterning and alliteration and assonance for example.