Elizabeth Bishop Flashcards
‘The Fish’
personifying the fish
‘I caught a tremendous fish and held him’
‘The Fish’
simile about medals
‘like medals with their ribbons’
‘The Fish’
metaphor about victory
‘victory filled up’
‘The Fish’
triple describing fish
‘grim, wet and weapon-like’
‘The Fish’
simile+repetition about fish
‘like ancient wallpaper […] was like wallpaper’
‘The Prodigal’
ashamed+fearing consequences
‘(he hid the pints behind a two-by-four)’
‘The Prodigal’
personification of odor
‘The brown enormous odor he lived by’
‘The Prodigal’
paradox about dung
‘glass-smooth dung’
‘The Prodigal’
metaphor about stopping his addiction
‘But it took him a long time finally to make his mind up to go home’
‘Filling Station’
tone from start
‘Oh, but it is dirty’
‘Filling Station’
sibilance that shows this is a family filling station
‘several quick and saucy and greasy sons assist him’
‘Filling Station’
tone changes, contrast, appearance v.s reality, dirty yet comfy
‘a dirty dog, quite comfy’
‘Filling Station’
oil emphasized + anaphora
‘oil-soaked, oil-permeated, to a disturbing, over-all black translucency’
‘In the Waiting Room’
simile linking unfamiliar thing to something familiar, comparing the necks of the women to light bulbs
‘like the necks of light bulbs’
‘In the Waiting Room’
alliteration+metaphor about being overwhelmed
‘It was sliding beneath a big, black wave, another, and another.’
