"Icebergs behoove the soul / (both being self-made from elements least visible) / to see them so: fleshed, fair, erected indivisible."
— Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)
Work Title
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Date
1946
Metaphor
"Icebergs behoove the soul / (both being self-made from elements least visible) / to see them so: fleshed, fair, erected indivisible."
Metaphor in Context
Good-bye, we say, good-bye, the ship steers off
where waves give in to one another's waves
and clouds run in a warmer sky.
Icebergs behoove the soul
(both being self-made from elements least visible)
to see them so: fleshed, fair, erected indivisible.
(p. 5, ll. 28-33)
where waves give in to one another's waves
and clouds run in a warmer sky.
Icebergs behoove the soul
(both being self-made from elements least visible)
to see them so: fleshed, fair, erected indivisible.
(p. 5, ll. 28-33)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Bishop, Elizabeth. "The Imaginary Iceberg." The Complete Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. Fourth printing, 1975.
Date of Entry
12/22/2009
