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Ambiguity in Elizabeth Bishop’s “12 o’clock News” Elizabeth Bishop constructs the poem “12 o’Clock News”to portray distinct settings with similar descriptions. In the first stanza, it is unclear whether it is the gooseneck lamp or the moon that “gives very little light” and “could be dead.” Though there is an implied distances between the desk … Read more

Ambiguity in Elizabeth Bishop’s “12 o’clock News” Elizabeth Bishop constructs the poem “12 o’Clock News”to portray distinct settings with similar descriptions. In the first stanza, it is unclear whether it is the gooseneck lamp or the moon that “gives very little light” and “could be dead.” Though there is an implied distances between the desk … Read more