Intertextual Allusions as Bakhtinian Dialogism in Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics.

Tthroughout her career, Elizabeth Bishop(1911-1979)continually sought new possibilities for making poetry and for stretching herlimits as a poet.The body of her work is marked by an increasing capacity to render elusive and complex experience with  remarkable immediacy and to engage in contemporary social and cultural issues. Above all,Bishops accomplishment lies in her unique position in"American poetry as a rebel within the literary establishment, not simply subversive of conversational aesthetics, but"recognized"as an"authority"on revitalizing poetry from within traditional forms. This paper examines Bishop's poetics by drawing attention to her literary ambitions and Informed by Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogism, it seeks to shed light on the enabling conditions for Bishop's poetic achievement, While tracing her poetic development through her dialogic interactions with others 'ideas, styles and texts  .It is the research 's contention,as such,that a study of Bishop's poetics in relation to her artistic theories will bring a better understanding of her distinct and enduring merit. Elizabeth Bishop fulfilled in her poetry the  "real Hope's 'and ambitions the speaker in her prose piece  ,"In prison" articulates. Enacting his desire to be  "unconventional, and rebellious, "Bishop preserves,and renews what has been made even as she strives to find new ways of making poems.Perhaps the most significant impact of her poems on other poets resides in her demonstration that an effective ideological and aesthetic revolt cannot afford to abandon wrestling with the restraints of language and form freedom is knowledge of necessity,"as her "allegorical prisoner reiterates .While posting challenges of many kinds, Bishop's oeuvre is, as she wished, a valuable "legacy of thoughts  "for present and future generations of poets.  Like all great art, her poems offer much more than ideas and designs.  Seamus Heaney has put it well in saying that Elizabeth Bishop "does continually manage to advance poetry beyond the point where it has been helping us to enjoy life to that even more profoundly verif~'ing point where it helps us also to endure it." In doing so, Bishop has certainly written poems that endure.