English Poetry. Elizabeth Bishop. Conversation. Элизабет Бишоп.

Elizabeth Bishop (Элизабет Бишоп)

Conversation

The tumult in the heart 
keeps asking questions. 
And then it stops and undertakes to answer 
in the same tone of voice. 
No one could tell the difference. 

Uninnocent, these conversations start, 
and then engage the senses, 
only half-meaning to. 
And then there is no choice, 
and then there is no sense; 

until a name 
and all its connotation are the same.

Elizabeth Bishop’s other poems:

1. At the Fishhouses
2. Roosters
3. Manners
4. Giant Snail
5. Squatter’s Children

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

William Cowper (Уильям Купер) Conversation (“Though nature weigh our talents, and dispense”)

Ella Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Conversation (“We were a baker’s dozen in the house-six women and six men”)

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