literary analysis of `The Moose` by Elizabeth Bishop

Thesis statement : Literary criticism of Bishop 's creative writing The Moose

What makes life , a life is what the poem implied about . The narration of the travel of the passengers headed to Boston , metaphorically it refers to a journey of person searching for a place called HOME

The writer has a complex and sarcastic projection of the poem . She wraps the narration with a simple context but deep in meaning . She reveals dissatisfaction to appreciate contentment and she uncovers idealism to value realism

In revealing the right understanding , language is dissected

br figuratively how it represents the word . The poem begins with a long thrilling aura of Nova Scotia , the land of fish and bread and tea /home of the long tides , this represents the earth itself , where it is bounded with blessings - the food ad other needs

On the other hand , it may specifically refer to a particular place which is described by the writer . According Catherine Joyce (On the Art of Seeing Things , 2008 ) the name of setting is not mentioned , but considering the this is nothing else but referring to Nova Scotia

The poem continues home of the long tides where the bay leaves the sea twice a day and takes the herrings long rides , where if the river enters or retreats in a wall of brown foam depends on if it meets the bay coming in , the bay not at home where , silted red , sometimes the sun sets facing a red sea , and others , veins the flats ' lavender , rich mud in burning rivulets ' In this stanza , it further supports the of the place . The writer uses personification to put life on the setting . the river enters or retreats ' this represents person as sometimes brave 'enters ' or sometimes quitter 'retreats ' in his battle to life but still it continues moving like the river flows going towards the bay . The red sea ' mentioned is an allusion referring

On the followed stanzas , while driving through the woods , the bus stops because a moose has wandered onto the road . The appearance of the animal interrupts the peaceful hum of elderly passengers ' voices . Their talk despairingly revolving itself round such s as recurrent human failure , sickness , and death is silenced by the unexpected advent of the beast , which redirects their thoughts and imparts a "sweet sensation of joy " to their quite ordinary , provincial lives (stanza 13-28

The colloquial tone marks a shift back into reality , or rather into a still , small place where the ordinary meets the miraculous , A moose has come out of /the impenetrable wood /and stands there , looms rather /in the middle of the road ' The voice locates this happening within the givens of a Nova Scotian experience - a kind of inheritance from living in the impenetrable wood ' where the sight of a moose is both otherworldly ' and yet homely . safe as houses ' c . It is indeed true , the moose symbolizes of certainty -No place like home

In the scenario sited , the author simply projects a realization...