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    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "Filling Station"
    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "Filling Station"
    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "Filling Station"
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    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "Filling Station"

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    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "Filling Station," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535823326
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      A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "Filling Station" - Gale

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      Filling Station

      Elizabeth Bishop

      1965

      Introduction

      Filling Station was published in Elizabeth Bishop’s third volume, Questions of Travel, (1965), most of which was written in Brazil. The book is divided into two parts: Brazil and Elsewhere. Filling Station and the poems in Elsewhere evoke the geographies, both physical and emotional, of Bishop’s childhood.

      Even though Bishop traveled extensively in her life, it was not the grand view that interested her. As one can see in Filling Station, she was more inclined to focus on the details of ordinary life. Once she thanked a friend who had sent her a pair of binoculars: The world has wonderful details if you can get it just a little closer than usual. Filling Station shows what can happen when someone takes the time to look closer than usual and see beyond the surface of things.

      Filling Station recreates the scene, in keenly observed visual and tactile detail, of a family-run gas station. It is not typical subject matter for a poem. Everything is startlingly dirty and oil-permeated in this little cosmos, from the father’s work clothes to the embroidered doily. After observing the overall black translucency of this place, the poem’s speaker begins to ask questions: Do they live in the station? After all, there is a dirty dog lying comfy on the greasy wicker sofa and comic books are on a taboret, or wicker stand. Why these things? the voice asks. The question is not answered directly or immediately. Despite the grime of it all, the poem continues, somebody cares: "Somebody waters the plant, / or oils it,

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