Elizabeth Bishop

I really admired some of her poem styles. The techniques she choose to write where so amazing to me, like the Sestina style. I was so  amaze at how a person can really focus on the endings to a sentence, phrase or stanza to form this style. I really thought the style was overwhelming to the novice poet such as myself. I tired to place myself in the mind of Bishop to see if I would grasp any conceptual thoughts to begin to write a Sestina.

Her poem "Crusoe in England" is theme of describing the world, emotional crisis and past experiences. We were told that her poems were not labeled as personal experience. But I differ with that revelation. I believe if one is writing from their mind their will definitely be personal views attached, webbed into, and delivered throughout the work. Your mind can't be unbias. She describes places she has been mentally. She reveals her various relationships that were not public. She uses metaphors and talks about being in exile. 

After reading her poems in Geography III I have learned a lot about Bishop without her being explicit. I've learned that she was in a homosexual relationship that she keep sacred but at the same time felt as she was living in exile because during the time this type of relationship was not accepted as it would be today.

I admire any person be that man or woman to tech one the style of writing through the eyes of their world.