18. Quarantine VII - Crusoe in England
Feeling we may benefit from a work both far away and near, about isolation and home building and care (even in words), Elizabeth Bishop\u2019s \u201cCrusoe in England\u201d came to mind. Below is a link to the poem (with a recording of Bishop reading the poem), and otherwise listen here to us mull what Bishop made of Daniel Defoe\u2019s most famous, seventeenth-century castaway\u2019s experience and reflections\u2014a timeless poem. She writes: \u201cThe sun set in the sea; the same odd sun/rose from the sea,/and there was one of it and one of me\u201d \u2013 as Ted would say, \u201cjust like all of us!\u201d\n\nhttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48287/crusoe-in-england