Quote: “As words, the character Vardamon and the character in Bishop’s poem offer analogies to psychologizable people, but these analogies stop short of the three-dimensional range that might apply to a person” (Parker 134). 

Comment: I understand this point that in Bishop’s poem “First Death in Nova Scotia,” the unnamed young girl is just “words on paper, not people”(Parker 134) but I feel to some degree that the readers cannot help but imagine and elaborate on the humanness to whatever situation this made up character is in. The ability to analyze this fictional character as a representation of what psychoanalysts would say is a displacement or shift to a less threatening subject as means to cope with one’s own vulnerability appears like an acceptance that this character could be real. 

Question: I want to know more or have more explanation given to this idea of displacements as an interpretation of culture. Taking Bishop’s poem, again, we could say that the psychoanalysis methodologies to interpretation are objectively correct or could be correct if applied to a real person; or we could ask if it varies based on cultural and societal norms. Would someone’s personal experience alter their view on the analysis of the young girl from a psychoanalytic view?