Comparing 'One Art And The Story We Know'

“One Art” is a villanelle filled with sad sentiments of encouragement towards accepting loss. Elizabeth Bishop uses her tone to pull emotions from the reader that could be confusion and disagreement. Her tone deeply impacts the reader in such a way that it causes him/her to seriously think of accepting her opinion and advice. The capturing way she uses her tone in her word choice shows the reader her natural inflexion when she speaks. The tone of her work even affects her characterization. In “One Art,” Elizabeth Bishop uses tone to convey a character of false casualty, while also using it to emphasize the very heavy impact of her diction.

Analyzing different mediums can enhance an individual’s overall appreciation and understanding of a particular idea or story. While analysis of a painting can reveal the mood of the artwork, an analysis of a poem can reveal the author’s tone. Much more then that, analysis provides an opportunity to explore each work in an attempt to understand human nature through each author’s perspective. While exploring the painting “Ulysses and the Sirens” by J.W. Waterhouse and the poem “The siren song” by Margaret Atwood, a universal truth presents itself. While the painting focuses on the thematic idea of Odysseus being stubborn while his men care for his safety to get home, the poem holds a different view. In contrast, the thematic statement from the poem discusses the idea that the Siren hates singing and being in a bird suit, but is asking for help but it’s still tempting to hear the song. Although differing in point of view, both the painting and the poem explore an aspect of human nature that are relevant to society today. There are two different authors for the painting and the poem. However, the two are different when compared to each

Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving are both enthralling writers. They both have unusual styles of writing but they are similar in some ways. The writers are comparable in the use of tone in their works. Irving‘s use of tone in his stories are typically optimistic, yet dramatic. Poe’s uses of tone in his stories are filled with horror and are also dramatic. Poe and Irving use different techniques to develop a complex meaning in their short stories. For instance, elements such as imagery, tone, and irony are placed in these stories contribute to make these stories intense.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: there can be many different perspectives seen in a poem. One individual could read a poem as depressing and another can perceive it as a new beginning. One’s views rests on individual perspectives. For example, Edgar Allen Poe’s writing is dark and controversial. In my essay I will argue that Poe was not in his right mind and he was driven mad with evidence throughout his short story “The Tell-Tale Heart”.

This poem begins by describing some of the harsh feelings associated with failure. She starts by writing, “How many notes

Poetry is a form of literature in which the writer can express themselves and their ideas as they please. Some writer using similar methods to paint an image in the reader 's head to help understand the poem better. Writers like to use symbols,imagery,themes, and wordplay along with other methods to get their point across for what the poem stands for. These methods are used in many ways depending on who the writer is and what he/she is addressing. Using these methods helps the readers also understand the meaning behind the poems creation or what it goes for/against. In this essay we will Analyze the poem of Dylan Thomas “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and Emily Dickinson 's “Daddy”and their symbols,imagery,themes, wordplay, and

Cummings and Pablo Neruda present the theme of their poems by having their two speakers addressing the women they love. The two speakers cope with the idea of prospective change in two completely different ways: Cummings’s speaker faces the end of his relationship as a situation that hurts him but in the end he accepts it, while Neruda’s speaker doesn’t care about his lover’s past as the only thing he wants is to make a couple with her. Thus, there are both similarities and differences in the poetic devices used in the two poems, while the tone of the speakers’ voice differs too, as in the first poem is sad and melancholic whereas in the second poem is confident and

The use of symbolism and imagery is beautifully orchestrated in a magnificent dance of emotion that is resonated throughout the poem. The two main ideas that are keen to resurface are that of personal growth and freedom. Furthermore, at first glimpse this can be seen as a simple poem about a women’s struggle with her counterpart. However, this meaning can be interpreted more profoundly than just the causality of a bad relationship.

An optimistic tone is used toward the first part of the poem to show that the speaker does not feel as if she has lost objects of great value. The tone is presented by the speaker’s nonchalant demeanor toward losing simple items. The speaker notes, “so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster”(line 2-3). The lost of simple possessions will not bring disaster because simple things are lost every day and can be replaced. Since objects are lost every day, it is seen as a sense of normalcy and should not bring disaster.

Poetry allows for individuals to express themselves creatively through language and emotion. Kelly J. Mays describes in The Norton Introduction to Literature, that poetry is patterned arrangements of language to generate “rhythm” and thereby expressing and evoking specific “emotions” or “feelings” (847). When viewing “I wondered lonely as a cloud” by William Wordsworth and “Divorce” by Billy Collins it is plain to see that both writers were introducing their readers to their emotional status of the settings, theme and tone of their writings. Although different in the feelings and emotions, both authors inflict an emotional arousal to the reader.

The conflict that is dramatized in this poem was between the speaker’s emotions: depression and euphoria. Throughout the entire poem on the surface, there was a depressing and solemn mood. She compares herself to a cat with nine lives and paints a picture of herself turning into a beast whenever she attempts suicide. Though that is the negative aspect of her self-destruction, she seems pleased with her actions saying “Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well”(43-45).

Not only do these poems share differences through the speakers childhood, but also through the tones of the works.

Sam Hamill’s anthology The Gift of Tongues chose poems from all over the world, considering he thought that these poems moved him. Hamill chose these poems as long as they all shared similar themes with different poetic strategies for the reader to examine. Some of the themes that intrigued me throughout the anthology were historical themes and life themes. Historical themes talks about similar incidents that occurred in different time periods and life themes talks about how life goes on when you get older. All of these poems are memorable for the reason that they give the reader the chance to feel empathy in different ways, once this empathy is felt is clear the anthology will be memorable.

Her diction is strong, confident, and unweathering. In the second stanza, the speaker introduces the first item that isn’t difficult to lose and reminds readers of the daily life hassles of finding lost keys. This is the first example of something in life that is easily lost for her. She further backs it up her original statement by saying that their intent is “to be lost” (3), saying that things are meant to be lost, no matter what happens. She instructs the audience to “lose” and “accept” (4), which suggests that she has gone through loss before and it would be better to accept losing things since it would not hurt as much. She then instructs the audience to “practice” (7) losing, so her heart will not be crushed when the audience is accustomed to losing. By line 6, the speaker gets frantic. Her words become careless and the words take a sort of rhythm. She says “losing farther, losing faster”. The alliteration in this line emphasizes how much and how fast she has lost that it is in a place so unreachable at this point. She then loses “places, and names, and where it was [she] meant / to travel” (8-9). She lost more important things, but they were bearable.

The title of this villanelle “One Art” is an interesting concept, meaning that art is something one can perfect if a person practices enough, resembling a new style of painting or taking a high note in music. But Bishop’s art is different, no matter how much an individual will practice losing objects he or she will never be able to get over the loss of some things. Art in the title can be also interpreted as author’s poem, that writing helps her to grow over her losses or at least try to make it seem easier than it is.