Bishop- First Death In Nova Scotia Flashcards
1
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Bishop draws us into this gripping narrative
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‘In the cold, cold parlor my mother laid out Arthur’
2
Q
Bishop tries to ignore the sight of death
A
‘Below them on the table stood a stuffed loon’
3
Q
Bishop tries to comprehend death with fairytale comparisons
A
‘Jack Frost had dropped the brush’
4
Q
Bishop is forced into confronting Arthur’s body
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‘I was lifted up’
5
Q
Bishop imagines that Arthur is in a better place in this warm image
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‘The smallest page at court’
6
Q
Bishop finishes poem with a rhetorical question of her moment of realisation
A
‘But how could Arthur go?’
