Elizabeth Bishop is an American poet that most people referred as “one of the most important American poets” of the 20th century. In her early life, Elizabeth witnessed difficulties while growing up. Before she turned one, her father died and shortly later, her mother was send to a mental asylum and never saw her again. Elizabeth had to move in with her grandparents in Canada and went to an all-girls school where she was influenced by her friends with poetry. After graduating High School, she moved to New York City and traveled around the world filling in her notebook with poetry of descriptions of her trips and sights. She wrote her first volume North and South when she moved to Key West. Afterwards, she wrote A Cold Spring that later received