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“Sonnet” by Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop's images in "Sonnet" makes the end of life a release into joy

Is the end of life best imagined as a climactic release? Although not explicitly about death, Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “Sonnet” all but dramatizes it as a swift vault from captivity to liberation as the poem depicts the soul’s gleeful escape from “caught” (1) … Continue reading

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