Homeland Memories and Expectations:Landscape Writing in Bishop's Travel Poetry
Landscape,as a cultural imagery,embedded with politics,history,culture,memory and homeland emotions,becomes an important dynamic medium for identity construction.Elizabeth Bishop's travel poetry is rich in geographical and cultural landscapes which not only reveal her personal memories of homeland,but also become the carrier for constructing so-cial ideologies,manifesting the common homeland expectations of modern people.Bishop reflects deeply on the sense of home-land loss implied by the landscapes along her travels,in an attempt to alleviate the identity anxiety of modern people.She draws an ideal homeland through poetic landscapes,highlighting the significant mission of poetry to guard the spiritual home for hu-manity.At the same time,with keen observation and rational contemplation,she experiences the natural landscapes and ex-plores the harmonious coexistence of human and nature,human and society,as well as human and self.Bishop places herself within the context of globalization to affirm local identity.The landscapes in her travel poetry are both regional and global.The blending of imagination and reality as well as the balance between rationality and emotion in landscape writing are instructive for reconstructing the humanistic spirit of modern poetry and strengthening poets'humanistic concern.
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