MAP Elizabeth Bishop

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MAPLAN

Today in class I figured that I would do a mind map. I plan on including the authors background in greater detail. I also hope to find video that will make my presentation more interesting and I am hoping it helps everyone understand the author better in a way they can relate.

Vocab March 4

Chronic- constantly reoccurring
- Class is a chronic part of my schedule.
Sentiment- an opinion
- My sentiment of school is strong.
Morality- distinction between right and wrong
- Making the right choices is decided by my morality.
Remorse- regret or guilt
- I had a remorse for the bad way I handled the situation.
Defect- imperfection or lack
- The broken toy had a defect.
Acquaintance- a persons knowledge or experience of something
- Meeting the new person was a new acquaintance.
Sanity- ability to think and behave in a normal and rational matter
- People in insane asylums have no sanity.
Implication- conclusion that can be drawn by something
- After hearing her side of the story she had the implication she was right.
Alternative- another possibility
- She had an alternative choice.
Savage- fierce, violent, and uncontrolled
- Wild animals can be savage.
Phenomenon- fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen
- Winning the race is a personal phenomenon.

Map 1: Introducing Elizabeth Bishop

1) Her lesbian relationship with Lota de Macedo Soares gave her life stability and love

2) Bishop often spent many years writing a single poem, working toward an effect of offfhandedness and spontaneity

3) Bishop came to see poetry as an available, viable vocation for a woman

4) Bishop won the Lucy Martin Donnelly Fellowship from Bryn Mawr College in 1950 and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

5) In the last decade of her life, Bishop traveled in South America and Europe and taught at several universities, establishing a permanent relationship with Harvard