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Hi, I need help with essay on How Elizabeth Bishop Incorporated Her Life Experiences in Her Work. Paper must be at least 1500 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

But this new found balance in Bishop’s life was upset when her well-to-do paternal grandparents, decided to raise her in Worcester. Feeling kidnapped and uprooted from her family, she became a sickly child. She was then passed on to a maternal aunt hoping she can regain her health and liveliness, but it simply didn’t happen. During adulthood, she found a new home and friend in Brazil, and as a new story tries to unfurl, her Lota de Maceto, perhaps the only friend she’s ever had in her life, commits suicide, leaving her alone again. One may say that Elizabeth Bishop’s life is characterized by dislocation and isolation. She never learned to call a place “home” because she moved around a lot (Millier 56). In an unpublished poem, Bishop compared herself to a doll: “Their stoicism I never mastered / their smiling phrase for every occasion” (as quote in Millier 56). This line was like a commentary to the smiles these dolls were so ready to give – a characteristic she never acquired in her life. Perhaps she was a lonely child because she never had a place to be called home. Or maybe she had a terrible experience in child which led to trauma in her adult life. Whatever the reason was, we know from her work that Elizabeth Bishop was a lonely poet, a joyless woman. From her loneliness, she has she has created some of the best pieces of literature known in America today. Her tragic experiences and inner pain has led her to delve into topics which are familiar to the common person. Her works, Sestina, A Prodigal, and In the Village all carry her unmistakable voice, recounting her experiences, re-evaluating her views. Her work may involve some sparse details of her life, but it never delved into her own emotions, nor did she allow herself to rant through her writings. Instead, every one of her works have been carefully laid out to tell a common story, but always in a highly objective way, always using the third person point of view. Her three works never used the words, “I”, “me” or “my” to refer to herself, so that if one never knew her background, then one would never know that she is relating her own story. Her choice of style speaks of her own way of dealing with her emotions. Brett Millier says in his article, The Prodigal: Elizabeth Bishop and Alcohol, “[Bishop] chastised herself for lapses in her restraint” (Millier 56). Here was a woman in pain, who did not allow herself to cry, a woman who lost her loved one, but never really learned how to grieve for them. At a young age, she learned to depend only on herself, because her environment had no stability. She could not rely on her grandparents because she knew she’ll be passed on to someone else again. Her feelings of dislocation did not allow her to call any place her home (Millier 56), hence, she was forever travelling, never really allowing herself to stop and settle down in a place. She was also raised as a genteel, and was supposed to have a perfect life – she was not allowed to show emotion in front of other people. She did not have the capacity to deal with her own grief and loneliness because she was never taught how to.