People do not know how to deal with the falling out of relationships, many try to convince themselves that they are alright. Forgetting all these memories of their relationships will be easy, and will result in them attaining a happy life. Consequently, Bishop greatly contradicts this idea by portraying the narrator in the poem as someone who is going through great amounts of stress due to the hardships created by the loss of their once close relationship. It destroys the idea that people can easily forget the memories that make them who they are in present day. Bishop does this through the use of desperate repetition, purposeful symbolism, and an ignorant tone, Elizabeth Bishop accurately shows how people view forgetting moments as the cure for their despair, which is proven inaccurate due to people only deceiving themselves into thinking that they are
People do not know how to deal with the falling out of relationships, many try to convince themselves that they are alright. Forgetting all these memories of their relationships will be easy, and will result in them attaining a happy life. Consequently, Bishop greatly contradicts this idea by portraying the narrator in the poem as someone who is going through great amounts of stress due to the hardships created by the loss of their once close relationship. It destroys the idea that people can easily forget the memories that make them who they are in present day. Bishop does this through the use of desperate repetition, purposeful symbolism, and an ignorant tone, Elizabeth Bishop accurately shows how people view forgetting moments as the cure for their despair, which is proven inaccurate due to people only deceiving themselves into thinking that they are