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    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "Brazil, January 1,1502"
    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "Brazil, January 1,1502"
    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "Brazil, January 1,1502"
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    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "Brazil, January 1,1502"

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    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "Brazil, January 1,1502," 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
    ISBN9781535819893
    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "Brazil, January 1,1502"

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      A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "Brazil, January 1,1502" - Gale

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      Brazil, January 1, 1502

      Elizabeth Bishop

      1960

      Introduction

      Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazil, January 1, 1502 appeared in a 1960 volume of New Yorker magazine. The poem would also appear five years later in Bishop’s verse collection titled Questions of Travel. A U.S. citizen, Bishop spent fifteen years in Brazil. She was enamored with the nation and its landscape, but she also questioned her place—as an outsider—in the country. Brazil, January 1, 1502 explores that idea from an historical perspective. The poem’s title refers to the day that the Portuguese anchored at Guanabara Bay, Brazil, and claimed the country as part of their empire. (In 1494, Spain and Portugal had signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing the non-Christian world between them.) Bishop begins her poem with a quote from Sir Kenneth Clark’s Landscape Into Art and goes on to examines the European perception of nature in this poem about colonial

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