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The Armadillo
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The Armadillo
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Poem Criticism
Penelope Laurens: On "The Armadillo"
Lynn Keller: On "The Armadillo"
Bonnie Costello: On "TheArmadillo"
C. K. Doreski: On "The Armadillo"
Poem Details
Original Publication Year:
1965
Poet:
Elizabeth Bishop
Poetic Form:
Quatrain
Other Poems by the Same Poet
The Fish
The Man-Moth
At the Fishhouses
Filling Station
Questions of Travel
The Armadillo
In the Waiting Room
The Pink Dog
Crusoe in England
Pink Dog
Poems that Share Poetic Form
657 (I dwell in Possibility——)
613 (They shut me up in Prose——)
601 (A still——Volcano——Life——)
520 (I started Early——Took my Dog——)
341 (After great pain, a formal feeling comes——)
280 (I felt a Funeral, in my Brain)
303 (The Soul selects her own Society)
754 (My Life had stood——a Loaded Gun——)
712 (Because I could not stop for Death)
258 (There's a certain Slant of light,)
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Gathering Leaves
In a Disused Graveyard
Desert Places
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
For the Union Dead
Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
The Need of Being Versed In Country Things
To a Dark Girl
The Boy Soprano
Medusa
The Crows
Women
A Black Man Talks of Reaping
Miracles
Where It Ends
Refugee Ship
Chaplinesque
Episode of Hands
Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge
The Truth The Dead Know
Esta Noche
Esta Noche
Black Tambourine
To John Keats, Poet, at Spring Time
The Haunted Oak
#258 (320) ("There's a certain Slant of light,")
#712 (479) ("Because I could not stop for Death-")
#754 (764) ("My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun-")
#303 (409) ("The Soul selects her own Society-")
#280 (340) ("I felt a Funeral, in my Brain")
#341 (372) ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes-")
#520 (656) ("I started Early-Took my Dog-")
#601 (517) ("A still-Volcano-Life-")
#613 (445) ("They shut me up in Prose-")
#657 (466) ("I dwell in Possibility-")
For Love
