Tag Archives: New Yorker

“Sonnet” by Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop's images in "Sonnet" makes the end of life a release into joy
Posted on March 10, 2014 by Christopher Hewitt (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

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 →

Posted in The Next Chapter | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment