Analysis Of One Art By Elizabeth Bishop

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Bishop’s “One Art” is a unique one as it utilizes one of the most complex verse forms – the villanelle. A villanelle consists of nineteen lines, divided up into six stanzas. Five of the stanzas have three lines and the last stanza has four lines. Additionally, this form follows a very particular rhyme scheme, which in this case, means that every word either rhymes with “master” or “intent”. Furthermore, there is one refrain which Bishop repeats several times, although in a traditional villanelle poem there would be two refrains. In “One Art” the repeated refrain is the phrase, “the art of losing isn’t hard to master.” The villanelle is known as a “classic form of repetition and persistence” (Shapiro 77) and “each repetition furnishes a new

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From the instant life begins the understanding that life is a progression of loss becomes apparent. Loss is not something one can control. Loss cannot be manipulated, but only excepted, and somewhat expected, as Elizabeth Bishop validates in her poem "One Art." Bishop's viewpoint of loss causes the reader to delve into a part of their psyche that many are not comfortable with facing. Loss, no matter the magnitude is a hard thing to accept. "One Art" with all its beauty helps the reader to understand the loss. Sometimes loss is a brutal thing, while at other times, it is a thing of great beauty. As with all things in this world, it all depends upon one's perspective.

Loss is a cruel reality that every person must face at some point, and each person faces it differently. Elizabeth Bishop is clearly well acquainted with loss, and in her poem “One Art” she instructs her readers on a form of coping with loss that, despite her repeated encouragement of it, is less than successful: pretending to be unaffected. Not only does Bishop pretend outwardly to the reader that she is not experiencing any grief or longing, but she also lies to herself and builds a sort of convenient fiction in order to convince herself that the loss does not bother her. However, this convenient fiction does not hold up when faced with her true emotions. “One Art” reveals the pain that hiding one's actual emotions causes, as well as the

Elizabeth Bishop shares an interesting point of view about loss in her Villanelle, “One Art.” In “One Art” Bishop speaks of different things she has lost, mostly items and possessions but also people. She also tells how she feels about what has been lost and how to cope with the fact. Bishop shows her feelings and emotions of losing and accepting loss through her choice of wording and phrasing, her theme, and her structure of “One Art.”

Prior to this class, I have never heard Elizabeth Bishop’s name before or read any of her poetry. When I read her well noted poem, ‘One Art’ and discovered her name, I researched her life to seek what this poem might have meant to her at the time it was written. After discovering the hardships and tragic losses she has experienced in her life, the poem suddenly seems to make more sense.

Everyone loses themselves from time to time and possibly to the extent of feeling like you aren't going to find yourself ever again. Yet as humans, we all know that loss does not extend to just losing ourselves, but it may be death or selling our souls to someone that eventually abandons us. Undoubtedly these experiences are heart wrenching and grievous, but the pain in our lives is what provides us purpose to change. In the following poems “To a Daughter Leaving Home” by Linda Pastan and “Not All There” by Robert Frost they continue to explain the fundamentals of loss through imagery and personification. Simply put, humans all face loss from ourselves to others, but it is this loss and pain that pushes for the purpose to change.

“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop is a poem with many repetitions of phrases. Bishop reiterates multiple times the line “the art of losing is not hard to master,” all throughout the poem. That is why the style of repetition refers to the poem. The author creates “One Art,” a really fascinating and agreeable poem because she mentions various things that we lose throughout life. Firstly, she seems to be saying that it can be easy to lose things, but by the end of the poem she explains how loss is not as easy as it seems and it can be difficult to overcome those losses. Bishop states loss is not a disaster because in reality, with enough time we will learn to live without it no matter what it can be.

The villanelle poem “One Art”, written by Elizabeth Bishop is an optimistic tribute to her deceased lover and intends to reassure herself in her time of grief that it’s almost human nature to lose that which we love, considering her background in loss, her addition of impersonal comments, and her use of clever diction. The poem starts off simply talking about how there are things that we intentionally lose and gradually increases the significance of the thing we’ve lost until she’s talking about losing a loved one.

The poem “ One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop is an intense and emotional poem of inner struggle. At first glance Bishop’s poem seems as though it is about mastering the art of losing something, which she claims is very easy. In reality this poem has much more depth to it than meets the eye. The poem tries to exercise control within its form but in its emotions and ideas it is disorganized and uncontrollable. As the poem progresses deeper the connections go from tangible to intangible losses. Each item the speaker mentions losing gets to be more serious and intense the further into the poem it goes. Throughout the poem Bishop tries to prove that the art of losing is simple and easy but in fact the poem is about the opposite. It is actually a poem about how hard it is to detach yourself from everything you care about in order to not be phased by such things happening, the art

In the beginning of the poem “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop; she takes a lighter tone in the loss of a loved one as she exclaims “the art of losing isn’t hard to master.” (Bishop, 6) Our lives are filled with things that are lost but don’t cause disaster, for example, the “lost of door keys, the hour badly spent.” (Bishop 5) The poem has great reputation rhyme with six stanzas. Bishop used villanelle form as every line rhymes with either master or intent, and within each stanza the word ‘master” or “disaster” is in it. As you read the poem the tone of the poem gets more intense as she states “I lost two cities, lovely ones” (Bishop 13) “but is wasn’t a disaster” (Bishop 15) in the fifth stanza. Then later in the final stanza

In the fourth stanza, however, as she notes that she lost her mother’s watch and a loved house, she sounds less willing to accept the loss. In the fifth, she says that losing two cities and an entire continent still was not a disaster, although such losses sound enormous to the reader, still was not a disaster, she is trying to make their loss easier. However, when the speaker says that this shows that the art of losing is “not too hard to master,” (Elizabeth 1)her understatement suggests the opposite, as the poem concludes that the loss “may look like (Write it!) like disaster.” The parenthetical “Write it!” suggests one way to cope with disastrous losses—through art. One example of alliteration is in line 9 Bishop says “losing farther, losing faster.”(Elizabeth 7)In this line we can clearly see her repeat the letter f twice in a row. One instance of symbolism "Lost door keys" are mentioned alongside misspent hours, and we see that objects and more abstract things, like time, are viewed equivalently here. One art is a poem about accepting loss and losing loved ones and loved