A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "Filling Station"
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A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "Filling Station" - Gale
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Filling Station
Elizabeth Bishop
1965
Introduction
Filling Station
was published in Elizabeth Bishop’s third volume, Questions of Travel, (1965), most of which was written in Brazil. The book is divided into two parts: Brazil
and Elsewhere.
Filling Station
and the poems in Elsewhere
evoke the geographies, both physical and emotional, of Bishop’s childhood.
Even though Bishop traveled extensively in her life, it was not the grand view that interested her. As one can see in Filling Station,
she was more inclined to focus on the details of ordinary life. Once she thanked a friend who had sent her a pair of binoculars: The world has wonderful details if you can get it just a little closer than usual.
Filling Station
shows what can happen when someone takes the time to look closer than usual and see beyond the surface of things.
Filling Station
recreates the scene, in keenly observed visual and tactile detail, of a family-run gas station. It is not typical subject matter for a poem. Everything is startlingly dirty
and oil-permeated
in this little cosmos, from the father’s work clothes to the embroidered doily. After observing the overall black translucency
of this place, the poem’s speaker begins to ask questions: Do they live in the station?
After all, there is a dirty dog lying comfy
on the greasy wicker sofa and comic books are on a taboret, or wicker stand. Why these things?
the voice asks. The question is not answered directly or immediately. Despite the grime of it all, the poem continues, somebody
cares: "Somebody waters the plant, / or oils it,