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Excuse me? Elizabeth Bishop had no family.

So colourful and engaging!

She doesn't sugar-coat the mixture of loveliness and ugliness that is Florida. I love her bird verses - -who can resist: The state full of long S-shaped birds, blue and white, and unseen hysterical birds who rush up the scale every time in a tantrum.- -] and stand on the sand-bars drying their damp gold wings on sun-lit evenings.

Wonderful poem voted 10.

The Indian Princess makes me think of the myth of Pocahontas, in which '' she leaves her tribe and becomes a Christian'', but her skirt is buried in a swamp fulfilled with skeletons and the alligator is a kind of serpent that has a specific call for love and ''speaks'' in her ''throat''. It seems that this princess has no hope. It is more about a dying nature than about a life that grows up from death. The main expression is ''the fireflies map the heavens''.

There is a contrast between life and death. Seemingly, life grows up from death to disappear in death, after that. Elizabeth Bishop gives beauty a complex meaning. She is a poetess liking the comparison. In her first book of poems, entitled North and South, she compares Key West (where she moved in the early 1930’s) with Boston liking to use the contrast in poetry.

Elizabeth Bishop’s poem looks like a detailed and meticulous description of this wonderful place belonging to Florida, a place filled with ''S-shaped birds''. There is an enormous contrast between the aspect of the land having mangrove, palm trees, fireflies, pelicans, or buzzards and the aspect of the white swamps having skeletons and dead trees. The shells of the turtles around, on the beaches, make the image be complete.

Descriptive poem with rich imagery that brought out and painted the State in its natural beauty.

Flora and fauna of florid Florida. What is missing here are the Floridians, , a species in itself. You will - perhaps, soon - have a poem on poemhunter about the blessed/cursed/ridiculed/cartooned Floridians...

TWO: From the last stanza I understand an ironic tone concerning that crock problem, but she did that sublimest! Congratulations to her family for this Classic Poem of The Day. My deep respect for this mesmerizing poem.

ONE: I had been here for quite a time and I can tell you, I relive that moment again, my stay in Florida, BUT when I was there, I was constantly thinking....here around me can all of a sudden a crock appear, from this point of view, a sunshine state but a bit eerie. EB created loveliest poem for this Sunshine State.

Such a great write by Elizabeth Bishop👍👍👍

Birds and life! ! Thanks for sharing.

The last 5 lines, of this poem, was all this poem offered, everything else a waste!

An expertly penned poem about 'The Sunshine State' where it is summertime most all year long. It is easy to get spoiled here. This great poetess' portrayal of Florida is right on the mark. I would call this a perfect poem.