One Art Analysis Essay

This paper is a formal analysis of the Marble grave stele with a family group relief sculpture. It is a pentelic marble style relief standing at 171.1cm tall carved by a master. It is from the Late Classical period of Greek, Attic which was completed around ca.360 B.C. . I chose to analyze this piece as apposed to the others because I’m mainly attracted to art and sculptures from the Greek era. The overall color used in this relief is ivory with a few cracks and pieces broken off. There is some discoloration which causes the color to come off as slightly light brown for most of the relief. The sculpture appears larger compared to the other sculptures in the art room. It represents a family which includes a man, his wife, and their

As the poem goes on it gets deeper with meaning, sadder even. Lines four and five are the most crucial lines of the poem. Line three ends with the head giving the heart advice. “You will lose the ones you love. They will all go,” this isn’t the first thing someone wants to hear, especially not someone who is aware that they have just lost someone they love. But this is classic, logical advice that your emotions need to hear. What it means is that one day everyone you love will be gone, it is the sad truth of the world we live in. Nothing is forever. “But even the earth will go,

“Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man” (33). Even though Valjean does not recall this promise, he seals it by taking not only the silver but the two candlesticks as well. After Valjean gets wealthier, he sells all his possessions of value except for the two candlesticks that the bishop has given him. “It was a room very well fitted with mahogany furniture, ugly as all furniture of that kind is, and the walls covered with shilling paper. They could see nothing but two candlesticks of antique form that stood on the mantle, and appeared to be silver” (54). The constant presence of the candlesticks reminds Valjean of the bishop and what he has done for him. “He felt the bishop was there, that the bishop was present all the more that he was dead…” (75). The candlesticks are meaningful and important to Valjean, which makes these objects symbolic. The candlesticks have an even deeper meaning than anything else, because the bishop gives them to Valjean as a symbol for change and the promise he makes but never recalls.

Examining the formal qualities of Homer Watson’s painting Horse and Rider In A Landscape was quite interesting. I chose to analyze this piece as apposed to the others because it was the piece I liked the least, therefore making me analyze it more closely and discover other aspects of the work, besides aesthetics.

Consider this in relation to growing up. Part of growing up is learning how to handle certain situations, specifically emergency situations. However, many people assume that those types of situations rarely happen, especially to themselves. For instance, a five-year old boy does not want to learn how to swim because he says he will stay on dry land his entire life. As the years go by, he forgets about not wanting to swim. One day he is drafted into the navy, his ship is attacked and sinks, and the next thing he knows, he drown because of the fact that he refused to learn how to swim. This example shows he has ended up like those "who have forgotten how to swim", in other words he died like those who died from drowning. The man who drowned would not have suffered his fate if he had paid attention to the swimming lessons his parents made him take. By listening to the poet's warning of being in distress, the reader has the ability to prevent by remembering past lessons like this from

One ArtIn One Art by Elizabeth Bishop an attitude is expressed in the first 15 lines that emphasizes the effect of the last 4 lines. The overall attitude can be best described as pessimistic. She shows this pessimism by writing in a loose villanelle form. Language also contributes to the overall attitude of this poem. These two techniques help contribute to a readers understanding of the attitudes expressed. By writing this poem in a villanelle form Elizabeth Bishop emphasizes her optimistic, happy go lucky views in the first 15 lines. She repeats the lines losing isnt hard to master and roughly was not a disaster in lines 1,3,6,9,12,18 and 19. This repetition strengthens her point and allows her to talk optimistically at first, then turn her

Bishop writes “One Art” as if giving advice to another, but as the poem goes on, details get more personal and it becomes somewhat therapeutic to her. She starts with more casual objects that most people loose often. She challenges those who wish to master the art of losing to “accept the fluster of lost door keys, the

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.

These lines show that even the king, with all that he built, reign came to an end and nothing is left of him. The lines also show that the kingdom that once was powerful is now nothing at all. Despite building large

Throughout history art has served as a preservation and representation of the time in which they were made. During the Ancient Greek period art was not only mare naturalistic and humanistic but also became directly affected by the events going around. Both the Marble Statue of an Old Woman and the Marble Statue of Aphrodite are sculptures that were made during the Ancient Greek era, they each tell a story of what was going on during that point in time.

In the poem the author is telling the reader about his kiss with helen and how much he loves her. He loves Helen more than anything else in his life, but all she gave him was one kiss. He loves her even if she doesn't give him the same love. In the poem the author states “for heaven is in those lips”. In the poem the author is kissing Helen and describing the kiss to the reader. He referred to her lips as heaven; heaven is referred as a paradise in the sky where religious people are sent after they die. The author is saying kissing Helen is his paradise. Helen had thousands of men go to war for her. This means that he isn't receiving all the love that he is giving her. There are thousands of men just like him ready to die for Helen. In the poem the author states “And all is dross that is not Helena. The author is thinking about Helen and how she compares to other people in her life. He thinks that everyone and everything is unimportant unless it Helen. This shows how much Helen means to him. He is willing to put Helen over everything in his

Art is not life. More, it is a deception, mirroring experience and emotion, but never truly becoming that which it reflects. Art is attractive in that it is a controlled balance between rigid structure, which is too mundane for its purposes, and chaotic discord, which is too feral. Poetry is art. Loss is not. In her villanelle “One Art,” Elizabeth Bishop proves this to be so. The poem itself is an emotive crescendo, and while its speaker struggles to hold the pain of loss within the confines of art, its readers note the incongruity of such an effort. One word prompts them, and fuels Bishop’s crescendo with a momentum, a tone, and a coda; “disaster” impels the poem “One Art.”

Besides discussing fate, the deaths of the wanderer’s family and friends also show the transience of life. An example of this is seen through lines 34 to 36 when the wanderer reminisces about the fun he had in his youth with everyone he knew. At the end of the sentence, he says that “that joy has all faded.”, meaning that those times with his friends do not last forever.

The poem remains true to the aboce statement, what seems a light simple story poem soon becomes a personal story rich in emotion. Bishop talks about the dirty filling station from the first line. There is a lot of attention to detail throughout the poem like in all of Bishops poems, "oil-soaked, oil-permeated". The language that is used is informal everyday language, at first read it just seems to be Bishop describing the dirty family at the filling station. Then at a closer read the deep intensity of emotion becomes clear that Bishop is envious of the family. Its relating back to her childhood without her parents unlike the family filling station. In the final stanza the informal language used throughout the rest of the poem changes, its like it is a moment of relasation for Bishop, "Somebody loves us

People have appreciated numerous forms of art over many decades and continue to analyze what art is and how the aesthetics of it affect viewers. Audiences have gathered to “ooh” and “ahh” at art galleries, musicals, play and ballet performances, and concerts. In fact people even travel long distances to view world-renowned tourist sites, such as the Sistine Chapel. There are billions of creations and events that are considered art whether that art is valued by a large audience or the artist alone. Either way, art has become a tremendously significant method of entertainment in the world today, even if one does not recognize the entertainment as art.