Elizabeth Bishop created a unique poetic style that blended Marianne Moore's precision with Robert Lowell's personal revelation. Her poetry provides vivid, realistic representations of the physical world through perfect images and descriptions. While Bishop stated her poetry was not confessional, critics also point out its personal and emotional elements, noting she explored themes of her unsettled childhood, loneliness, and lack of structure through submerged confessions embedded in precise language and distant points of view.