Elizabeth Bishop: Nova Scotia in Brazil

10jacques Lacan emphasizes the close approximation of pictorial representation and the self as object of the gaze, as being who is looked at: "I must, to begin with, insist on the following: in the scopic field, the gaze is outside, I am looked at, that is to say, I am a picture" (106). Bishop's repeated imaging of the Nova Scotian scene as map, stained picture, or painting suggests that it is the remembering subject, and her ontological anxiety as object of the world's gaze, that is at issue in such recollections or reconstructions.

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STEVEN GOULD AXELROD is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. His books include Robert Lowell Life and Art (1978) and Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words (1990). He is currently working on a book about mid-twentieth-century American poets.

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