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Elizabeth Bishop And Her Poem "Filling Station" - Example Papers

Elizabeth Bishop And Her Poem "Filling Station"

Elizabeth Bishop's skill as a poet can be clearly seen in the thought-
provoking poem entitled Filling Station. She paints the different language
levels of poetry with the skill of an artist-- she seems to have an eye for
detail as she contrasts the dark and dim reference of a filling station to a
more homey, pleasant atmosphere. Bishop aptly arranges her words and
expressions through the language devices of voice and metaphor.
In Filling Station, Bishop uses tone of voice brilliantly, through the
use of phonetics, to create the poem's initial atmosphere. The opening seems to
be offering a straightforward description of the filling station: "Oh, but it
is dirty!/ -this little ...

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"grease-
impregnated". These words connect the [oi] in oily with the word following it
and heighten the spreading of the sound. Moreover, when studying the [oi]
atmosphere throughout the poem the [oi] in doily and embroidered seems to
particularly stand out. The oozing of the grease in the filling station moves
to each new stanza with the mention of these words: In the fourth stanza, "big
dim doily", to the second last stanza, "why, oh why, the doily? /Embroidered"
to the last stanza, "somebody embroidered the doily".
Whereas the [oi] sound created an oily sound of language throughout the
poem, the repetitive [ow] sound achieves a very different syntactical feature.
The cans which "softly say: /ESSO--SO--SO--SO" create a wind-like blowing
effect from the mouth. Each SO allows for a sort of visual metaphor to be
seen-- cars or the personified "high-strung automobiles" as they pass on by.
Not only are [oi] and [ow] sounds effectively used in this poem to create a
unique ...

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Added: 11/9/2005 03:49:10 PM
Category: Poetry & Poets
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 971
Pages: 4

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