There were two poets whom I will discuss, they are Elizabeth Bishop and Lucille Clifton. Bishop is a poet who experienced the loss of two parents by the age of five and Clifton was a poet who descended from African American storytellers (1478). Both poets endure different lives and have different styles of writing. Bishop and Clifton wrote their poems during the contemporary period and their themes will be identified. Elizabeth Bishop lost her father as an infant, and mother by the age of five. Her mother was put in a hospital because she suffered from breakdowns this caused Bishop to feel abandoned. She expresses the pain of loss in her poem “One Art”. She reflects on all she lost even though it was a disaster she mastered it: “the art of losing’s not too hard to master though it may look like disaster” (1113). Bishop felt losing someone is not a big deal.…show more content… She was the first person in her family to attend college, and after college she went on to create many poems, and books. Her poems reflect her parents, children, spirituality, and empowerment of African American woman. In her poem “homage to my hips” she uses her hips as a symbol. African American woman hips come in many sizes and often their hips can be observed as being large. In her poem she states “these hips have never been enslaved” (1480). She is speaking for all woman, that your hips have the power to
