A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "Brazil, January 1,1502"
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Brazil, January 1, 1502
Elizabeth Bishop
1960
Introduction
Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazil, January 1, 1502
appeared in a 1960 volume of New Yorker magazine. The poem would also appear five years later in Bishop’s verse collection titled Questions of Travel. A U.S. citizen, Bishop spent fifteen years in Brazil. She was enamored with the nation and its landscape, but she also questioned her place—as an outsider—in the country. Brazil, January 1, 1502
explores that idea from an historical perspective. The poem’s title refers to the day that the Portuguese anchored at Guanabara Bay, Brazil, and claimed the country as part of their empire. (In 1494, Spain and Portugal had signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing the non-Christian world between them.) Bishop begins her poem with a quote from Sir Kenneth Clark’s Landscape Into Art and goes on to examines the European perception of nature in this poem about colonial