Elizabeth Bishop's unromantic poem...

Elizabeth Bishop's unromantic poem, "Rainy Season; Sub-Tropics," granting one of her least commented-on works, contains important articulations from Bishop about herself as a bard and about her poetic principles and practice.(1) At the same time, its three monologues are relentles and revealing investigations of multifaceted subjectivity as captured in diverse voices between the walls of three animal personae. the two the form and content of these monologues are at one time an assimilation of and a resistance to the confessional practice in American poesy

"Rainy Season; Sub-Tropics"