"Filling Station" by Elizabeth Bishop and "The Jailer" by Sylvia Plath - analysis and comparison of styles

1.Elizabeth Bishop - "Filling Station" The poem consists of seven stanzas. Most of them have six or seven verses, except the very last one, which contains only two. The first stanza, with a strong exclamation in the beginning verse, introduces the setting - a small, dirty gas station. There is a clearly visible intention of creating some kind of repulsion through the description, as everything is "dirty" and "oil-soaked" - a good example of Objective …showed first 75 words of 2097 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2097 total…yzed in this essay are almost incomparable in terms of poetic devices, yet they possess one common feature: both succeed in communicating the emotions to the reader, and in impressing him or her with their outstanding values. Bibliography: 1 http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bishop/station.htm 2 http://www.electronicreferences.com/view.php/English/5188.htm 3 http://www.angelfire.com/ks/allthatshines/feminine/plath.html 4 http://www.ah-dann.freeserve.co.uk/page7.htm