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Imagery in “The Map”(读书笔记)

2019-05-02  本文已影响1人  lisa4ping

Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Map” uses her poem to picture the place she likes and imagines her favorite world. Bishop uses a variety of words to describe one location, which is challenging. She does this by saying, “Land lies in water, it is shadowed green.Shadows, or are they shallows, at its edges showing the line of long sea-weeded ledges where weeds hang to the simple blue from green.” From her poem, I can see a beautiful blue seashore in front of me. The next stanza, “The shadow of New found land lies flat and still,” She tries to show readers how attractive of the “seashore towns” are. She depicts the quiet peacefulness of the seashore by saying “Mapped waters are more quiet than the land is”. In her poem, the map gives the readers direction of the amazing place. It brings the readers to see the place in the seashore, water and land. Her poem is a good example for me to learn from, she gives us very detailed sea images of the colorful feeling of the water and landscape.

While I read her poem I thought about how to write my poem. Writing my poem I tried to learn from Elizabeth Bishop’s picture view of the writing style, I paid attention how to follow her poem style. Of course, I like to write a poem inspired from my memory, because all of the memories from my childhood are sweet dream.I cannot forget them, they stay there forever. Also, I like turning memories to a poem, which can show reader the place I grew up is a natural mountain range with lake around. This is in park set in the big city Wuhan, Hubei, China. My birthplace has many sweet memories were dragged up during of my writing, it was fantastic memories of childhood. Some time when I open and close my eye I could see my hometown’s lakes and bridges, and this feeling always follow me around the world anywhere I go. Then I tried to write down all the good time when I was young. 

Looking back my life, I was enjoy drifted from place to place, this is good way to learn new language and new thing, also could to meet people from all over the world,that’s the cool experience for my memories. I like to travel around world, but no matter how far away I go my hometown always in my mind forever. I know my life root still in my hometown Wuhan, China, that’s the reason I want continue to writing the poems to share with the friends and readers about old good happy time when I was young. I read Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, then look up my poem, my imagination sentence like this “I remember under the sun butterflies all over the grass” it to writing the place look like picture. Also I follow her style to tell reader my childhood story, “I yelled and run try to catch the dragonflies”.This sentence I want to tell reader how young girl like to play outside with natural world. Play with animal always is children’s favorite thing to do “The frogs jump on top lotus leaves then back into the water”. This happy moment from my poem clear could see, a little girl play around the lotus pound, see the dragonflies on top the lotus flowers and frogs jumping around pound, also I love to eat lotus seeds for snack. Right now, I think back of the time my face will be smile, the yummy fresh lotus seeds and water caltrop I pick up by myself swimming in the lake with my friends or my brother, when we get lotus seed we set by the pound to eat. Normally we go home by 5pm, because my mom and dad get outwork by 5:30pm at until sun down, some time we forget go home until sun down to go home to eat supper, it to makes my mom and dad very worry about us. More I write my sweet childhood poems more I feels the happier moment will come back to me.

Elizabeth Bishop’s poem is great way for me to learning from, I can see how her discretion the place like that “lending the landing their waves’ own conformation; and Norway’s hare runs south in agitation,” her poem very clear tell the place direction, my poem only talk about how beautiful my hometown. For me writing a direction is not easy, also so difficulty   descript the place like her way to imagination the place. Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Map” is geography poem to show the reader what she thinks the place what’s look like. For me learning is long way to go, I love her poem writing style.

Elizabeth Bishop
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