Poets throughout history have created countless works intended to stimulate and arouse emotion in their readers. One poet in particular who mastered this skill was Elizabeth Bishop. Bishop is a world-famous poet whose works have facilitated her growing national fame. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1911. She grew up in New England and moved to Nova Scotia, Canada, shortly after her father died and her mother moved in with another man. In the fall of 1930, Bishop then attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, after completing his basic education. Bishop published his work very sparingly for a major American poet. In 1946, twelve years after graduating with a degree in English literature, Bishop decided to pursue a literary career by publishing her first publication, North and South, which won the Houghton Mifflin Prize for Poetry. Because of its overwhelming popularity and success, he decided to edit and republish it in 1955 as Poems: North and South—A Cold Spring, with 18 other poems making up the "Cold Spring" section. With the book's new redesign its popularity skyrocketed, winning Bishop the Nobel Prize for Poetry in 1956. Bishop, like many other authors before her, wrote about her thoughts and feelings. Questions of Travel (1965) focused on his sights, landscapes, and feelings during his time living in Brazil. Brazil (1967) was a travelogue of poems covering the diverse environs of Brazil. An Anthology of 20th Century Brazil Poetry (1972) is exactly what it sounds like, Brazilian poetry. Geography III (1976), her last publication, earned her the National Book Critics Circle Award. Three years later he dies of a brain aneurysm...... middle of paper ......the erection of the "bronze rooster on a porphyry/pillar" serves to "convince/the whole assembly" that the the rooster's cry is not just denial. The end of the poem serves to return to the dawn in the courtyard initially announced by the roosters. The point of view changes from the sphere of sculpture to focus on the gradual growth of nature from "below", while the "low light" of the sun gilds the "broccoli, leaf by leaf". The emphasis on militarism takes a backseat to Christian forgiveness, which then yields to nature. Bishop holds neither perspective of the rooster's contradictory symbolic meanings, thus preserving the disjunctive quality of the poem. The new order introduced by the sun is ambiguous and unstable since its loyalty is compared to that of an "enemy, or friend" which causes the almost "imperceptible" roosters to withdraw together with their "senseless order””.