The shattered identity in Elizabeth Bishop's questions of travel
Joint Authors
Jasim, Huda Hadi
Khurshid, Muhannad Rahif
Source
Journal of Education College for Women for the humanistic Sciences
Issue
Vol. 13, Issue 24 (30 Jun. 2019), pp.7-28, 22 p.
Publisher
University of Kufa Faculty of Education for Women
Publication Date
2019-06-30
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
22
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This study aims at shedding light on the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop (1979-1991) who is considered as one of the most prominent American poets of the twentieth century.
Elizabeth Bishop's poetry is characterized by themes of home, distance, self and other dichotomy and, of course, travel.
The concept of travel covers a wide range of poems in her early and later poetry collections.
For this reason, many critics look at her as a tourist more than a poet and it is not strange to consider that Bishop herself creates her suffering when preferring travelling on staying in one place or country and establishing an identity for her own, especially, when being able to return back easily.
My study, however, concentrates on this idea of identity that Bishop adopts and tries to answer certain doubts about her viewpoint of travel and living abroad.
This paper is divided into two sections; the first section is an introduction, which is by itself divided into two sub-sections.
The first concerns Bishop's life, career, and the second is about her being as a poet.
Moreover, the second section addresses directly Bishop's "Shattered" identity throughout offering three poems from her 1965 poetry collection Questions of Travel, which are "Arrival at Santos", "Brazil, January 1.1502" and "Questions of Travel" the poem which has the same title of the collection.
Finally, the study sums up with a conclusion, which summarizes the main points of the subject.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Jasim, Huda Hadi& Khurshid, Muhannad Rahif. 2019. The shattered identity in Elizabeth Bishop's questions of travel. Journal of Education College for Women for the humanistic Sciences،Vol. 13, no. 24, pp.7-28.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1242136
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Jasim, Huda Hadi& Khurshid, Muhannad Rahif. The shattered identity in Elizabeth Bishop's questions of travel. Journal of Education College for Women for the humanistic Sciences Vol. 13, no. 24 (2019), pp.7-28.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1242136
American Medical Association (AMA)
Jasim, Huda Hadi& Khurshid, Muhannad Rahif. The shattered identity in Elizabeth Bishop's questions of travel. Journal of Education College for Women for the humanistic Sciences. 2019. Vol. 13, no. 24, pp.7-28.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1242136
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 27-28
Record ID
BIM-1242136