Elizabeth Bishop<\/a>‘s birthday (1911-1979).<\/p>\nI am lucky enough to have been in her childhood home in Great Village, Nova Scotia, and her mountainside villa in Ouro Preto, Brazil.\u00a0 In both instances, her bedroom was the smallest room in the house.<\/p>\n
Frye never wrote about Bishop.<\/span> (See Bob Denham’s correction in the post above.)\u00a0 But he did meet her at Harvard in 1975, when she was writer-in-residence and he was the Charles Eliot Norton lecturer (those lectures later became The Secular Scripture<\/em>).\u00a0 According to John Ayre, they were seated together at dinner one night and “swapped tales” of their Maritime upbringing, she in Nova Scotia and he in New Brunswick. (Northrop Frye: A Biography, <\/em>347)<\/p>\nAfter the jump, “First Death in Nova Scotia.”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In the cold, cold parlor
\nmy mother laid out Arthur
\nbeneath the chromographs:
\nEdward, Prince of Wales,
\nwith Princess Alexandra,
\nand King George with Queen Mary.
\nBelow them on the table
\nstood a stuffed loon
\nshot and stuffed by Uncle
\nArthur, Arthur’s father.<\/p>\n
Since Uncle Arthur fired
\na bullet into him,
\nhe hadn’t said a word.
\nHe kept his own counsel
\non his white, frozen lake,
\nthe marble-topped table.
\nHis breast was deep and white,
\ncold and caressable;
\nhis eyes were red glass,
\nmuch to be desired.<\/p>\n
“Come,” said my mother,
\n“Come and say good-bye
\nto your little cousin Arthur.”
\nI was lifted up and given
\none lily of the valley
\nto put in Arthur’s hand.
\nArthur’s coffin was
\na little frosted cake,
\nand the red-eyed loon eyed it
\nfrom his white, frozen lake.<\/p>\n
Arthur was very small.
\nHe was all white, like a doll
\nthat hadn’t been painted yet.
\nJack Frost had started to paint him
\nthe way he always painted
\nthe Maple Leaf (Forever).
\nHe had just begun on his hair,
\na few red strokes, and then
\nJack Frost had dropped the brush
\nand left him white, forever.<\/p>\n
The gracious royal couples
\nwere warm in red and ermine;
\ntheir feet were well wrapped up
\nin the ladies’ ermine trains.
\nThey invited Arthur to be
\nthe smallest page at court.
\nBut how could Arthur go,
\nclutching his tiny lily,
\nwith his eyes shut up so tight
\nand the roads deep in snow?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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