1. Elizabeth Bishop

2. ABOUT HER POEMS..
Elizabeth Bishop's poems were always admired for the purity and precision of her descriptions
In her early poems, the attention to external detail reveals an internal emotional realm.
Bishop's early works use surrealism and imagism to create a new reality in which she minimizes the reference to self in poetry
Her later poems become more autobiographical and more concerned with a quest for personal identity.

3. When she was 8 months old her father died, and when she was 5 her mother was committed to a mental asylum
Elizabeth Bishop was born in 1911 in Worcester, Massachusetts
From ages 3 to 6, Bishop lived in Great Village, Nova Scotia, with her mother's parents, and was then taken in by her father's family in Worcester and Boston

4. She earned a bachelor's degree from Vassar College in 1934
Her poetry is filled with descriptions of her travels and the scenery which surrounded her, as with the Florida poems in her first book of verse, North and South, published in 1946
Using money from her fathers death, she spent time traveling to France, Spain, North Africa, Ireland, and Italy and then settled in Key West, Florida, for four years.

5. For years she was considered a "poet's poet," but with the publication of her last book, Geography III, in 1976, Bishop was finally established as a major force in contemporary literature.
She received the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for her collection, Poems: North & South/A Cold Spring.
Her Complete Poems won the National Book Award in That same year, Bishop began teaching at Harvard University, where she worked for seven years.
Elizabeth Bishop was awarded the Fellowship of The Academy of American Poets in 1964

6. She was influenced by the poet Marianne Moore, who was a close friend, mentor, and stabilizing force in her life, and Robert Lowell.
She was a lesbian and her lesbian lover was Lota de Macedo Soares.

7. After the suicide of Lota de Macedo Soares, Bishop increasingly began to live in the United States, and became poet-in-residence at Harvard University in 1969.
A close friendship with Alice Methfessel began in 1971 and continued until the time of Bishop's death in Her final poetry volume Geography III, was published in 1976.

8. The form she wrote her poem in was villanelle
The form she wrote her poem in was villanelle. It is an intricately patterened, nineteen-line lyric poem.

9. One Art
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster, Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster. I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three beloved houses went. The art of losing isn't hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. -- Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) a disaster

10. Who was Lota de Macedo Soares?
Best friend
Teacher
Lover
Mother

11. How old was she when her mother was put in a mental asylum?
5 years old
8 years old
10 years old
3 years old

12. How old was she when her father died?
8 years old
8 months old
2 years old
2 months old

13. What is a Villanelle? An intricately patterned ;19-line lunic poem
a poem with 6-lines and a rhyme scheme consisting on ab ab ab
A poem with no rhyme scheme with 19 lines
None of the above

14. Where was Elizabeth born?
Alabama
Massachusetts
California
Canada

15. Where did her mother live?
With her new husband, John, in Canada
In a mental hospital
She was homeless, so she didn’t live anywhere.
With her daughter and her daughter’s lover

16. When did she die?
1962
1974
1979
1967