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Elizabeth Bishop’s “long trip home”
Elizabeth Bishop’s “long trip home”

Author(s): Reet Sool
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus

Summary/Abstract: "Of the numerous meanings of the noun ‘home’, two are particularly relevant at this point – ‘an environment offering security and happiness’, ‘a valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin’ (these and other definitions come from online dictionaries, notably The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 2000). To quote Lord Byron, “He entered his house – his home no more,/For without hearts there is no home.” In this sense, Elizabeth Bishop’s home was Canada, where she lived from the age of three to six in Great Village, Nova Scotia, and not New England, where she was born and orphaned soon after."

  • Issue Year: XIV/2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 443-451
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English