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The four-part cinema of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Moose"
For tomorrow's discussion of Elizabeth Bishop's 1972 poem "The Moose", I asked the students to read J. T. Welsch's 2019 article "‘The Moose’ as Movie: Elizabeth Bishop as Screenwriter". Following Welsch's discussion of cinematic techniques in "The Moose", I have broken the poem into four parts: the establishing shots (lines