For tomorrow's discussion of Elizabeth Bishop's 1972 poem "The Moose", I asked the students to read J. T. Welsch's 2019 article "‘The Moose’ as Movie: Elizabeth Bishop as Screenwriter". Following Welsch's discussion of cinematic techniques in "The Moose", I have broken the poem into four parts: the establishing shots (lines 1-36) that conclude with a "lone traveller" in rural Nova Scotia boarding a bus to Boston; the exterior shots (37-72) of the bus's journey; the interior shots (73-129) after a new passenger comes on board; and the climactic set piece of the encounter with the moose (130-168). My question will be how the first three parts relate to that final drama. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 3 December 2025)