In five pages distinctions between abstract and concrete language are discussed in a poetic analysis of works by John Keats, Amy Lowell, and Elizabeth Bishop. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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the other has its origins in ambiguity. Examining the poems of Elizabeth Bishop, Amy Lowell and John Keats finds that the two divergent literary approaches are employed as a
means by which to reach the same conclusion, however, it is the path that leads to this conclusion that stands to separate. Poets use concrete language when they seek
a more literal approach to expression; abstract language, on the other hand, is utilized when the writer is looking to convey a more esoteric thought.
Elizabeth Bishop is as simple as she is complex. The lucid and uncomplicated images she creates with her concrete style are anything but; in fact, the
complexity that resides within her characteristically simple prose, which demonstrate a purity and precision like no other, are known only to those who can see beyond their fa?ade. Attention
to outer detail and an unquenchable desire to portray her inner pain, Bishop favored a more simplistic approach to convey a confused mind. Utilizing the concepts of surrealism and
imagism, as well as incorporating landscape and geography, the troubled poet cleverly and quite appropriately captured her audience with concrete images of her own anguish, illustrating the poets "mastery of
weaving spontaneously narrative, meditative, and descriptive elements into a seemingly simple structure to enact a complex experience and suggest a complicated idea" (Xiaojing 102). "I looked into his eyes
which were far larger than mine but shallower, and yellowed, the irises backed and packed with tarnished tinfoil seen through the lenses of old scratched isinglass. They shifted a
little, but not to return my stare" (Bishop PG). Prior to putting pen to paper, Keats visualized thoughts and ideas in order