During the early 1900s, the United States was becoming more progressive. While some people were working to reform child labor laws, women were trying to obtain the right to vote. Meanwhile, artists were drifting away from Romanticism and began focusing on Modernism. Elizabeth Bishop, a major 20th-century poet, was one of the first poets in the 1900s to experiment with nontraditional forms and highly intricate verse. As a young lady, Bishop encountered death on several occasions and even experienced severe alcoholism. Her experience with death and alcoholism helped craft intricate scenes in her poetry. Furthermore, with the influence of early 20th-century poets, Bishop’s poetry breaks the classic structure of 19th-century poets and brings
