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Post by Kes on Jan 16, 2016 11:47:36 GMT -5
The two poems in the anthology by Bishop have a sort of link to them, which makes me wonder if it's common for prose poems to connect to each other. The crab poem (p111) briefly mentions a snail, and on the next page the snail poem briefly mentions the crab. It's an interesting device (I don't get what the real purpose is besides nature's connectedness?).
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Post by Gerry on Jan 16, 2016 12:12:54 GMT -5
It's a shell game???  Bishop's prose poems are interesting insofar as they represent another subject of the prose poem: the bestiary--the prose poem that engages the animal world and tries to relegate our imagination as to the animal kingdom. If you look through Models of the Universe you'll see a number of those. What are your thoughts on them? |
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Post by klforest on Jan 16, 2016 16:08:26 GMT -5
I like the two that she had in there, but my opinion on the crab poem changed once I read the snail one. I had originally read the crab poem as a total double-entendre for the Cancer sign, but then I read the second one and I changed my mind. I think I liked the first way I read it more, though.
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Post by Gerry on Jan 16, 2016 16:16:45 GMT -5
Bishop was born in February, so she's not a cancer. That said, all readers come in with schema--things they bring to the poem based on their own knowledge and experience. Your schema ads a layer of understanding to the poem is all.
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Post by william on Jan 16, 2016 18:50:12 GMT -5
I really like your responce on this. You basically boiled several hours of our past discussions into a couple sentences.
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