18. Quarantine VII - Crusoe in England

Published: May 24, 2020, midnight

b'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'