How is elizabeth bishop similar to marianne moore?
Both Moore and Bishop delighted in economy – they preferred understatement and the sharp thrust of a single word, or a turn of meaning captured concretely in a juxtaposed adjective, to long displays of metric perfection. Neither was an epic poet; they did not aspire to offer their own “Evangeline.” Both were sharp observers, and wrote sense memory into their work, as when in her most famous poem, “Poetry,” Moore hopes for poets who can produce “imaginary gardens with real toads in them.” For her part, Bishop’s first book, “North & South,” prompted critic Randall Jarrell to write that “all her poems have written underneath, ‘I have seen it.’ ” Both won Pulitzer Prizes. Moore was a great influence on Bishop, and became her friend, too, until Moore’s death in 1972. Neither married.
