Elizabeth Bishop, Poems

The following video offers one person’s explication of Questions of Travel.

The video about Sestina offers an interpretation that focuses on specific words, structure, and more.

This video offers an explanation of themes, imagery, and other elements of literature in The Waiting Room.

The following video discusses the format of villanelle in Bishop’s One Art, along with rhyme and theme.

This video uses One Art to show one student’s process of analysis: pre-reading impressions, reading and paraphrasing each stanza, going back to the poem to examine how elements of literature function in the poem, examining the importance of the title, and identifying themes.