Elizabet Bishop And The Fragment Poem Analysis

I) The author of this poem is Elizabet Bishop and the fragment belongs to Twelve o'clock news. Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet who lived before, during and after the Second World War. This terrible historical event influenced his writer. Not only that, she was also influenced by the poet Marianne Moore, who made experimental poetry. This poem was published in 1976 after the Vietnam War, a war that inspired the poem. Bishop is part of the new historicism, the authors of this movement believe that a work is the product of a time, place and circumstances and this must be taken into account when reading his works.
II) The title of the poem and the way it is written remember to news radio program. On the right side, I interpret Bishop speaks

of Vietnam and in this passage she refers to that country as "small, backward country". The tone in which it is written is somewhat racist but not because the author is what it is doing a critique of the West as it was the tone that many used to refer to an oriental country, for example the journalist. By not explicitly name the country achieves that you can identify with other wars because, unfortunately, the conflicts have not stopped. To the left of this fragment is an object and what right could be a metaphorical description of the object. It's difficult to relate envelope with his metaphorical description but we could see that relationship with communications, industrialization and sign-boards. "On a truly gigantic scale" can make us think of communist propaganda in northern Vietnam.
III) If we consider this text from the perspective of new historicism must pay attention to two important elements: co-text and text.

An important feature of the new historicism is for comparing a text with other text, similar and different at the same time. Thanks to this we can see how a theme is treated differently. In this case the co-text is the article by McCarthy and the text is the poem by Bishop. The co-text is an element which serves to better understand the text. In the co-text, It's named the place and the specific time of that is spoken in the text, while the text does not specify the time and place, and this allows, in a way, that the reader feel identified with the text in another era. If we compare the texts of McCarthy and Bishop, the first follows a standard pattern in terms of writing, identifies Vietnam, criticizes America and is explicit in its anti-war ideologyin addition to being an article; however, the text of Bishop does not follow a pattern, it is written in two columns, does not name Vietnam and does not mention America, besides the anti-war sentiment is implicit and simulates a radio. But there are all different, they are similar in that both deal with the issue of war and death, using the first person pronoun and

irony.