One Art

The persona who Elizabeth Bishop presents in the poem “On Art” brings to the reader the idea that “[t]he art of losing isn’t hard to master”(1). Trying to not to miss these things, she goes on to express how “so many things seem filled with the intent/ to be lost”(2-3). Things were made to be lost, which from a reader’s point of view can be compared to how humans are made to eventually die. As the speaker continues, she explains what some of the things that she has lost are. These include; lost door keys, wasting time away, places she wished to visit, her dreams, people, her mother’s watch, places she’s been, and finally, “you”(16), whom the speaker is telling this all to.

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One Art by Elizabeth Bishop is a poem that explores loss in comparison to an art; however, this art is not one to be envied or sought after to succeed at. Everyone has experienced loss as the art of losing is presented as inevitably simple to master. The speaker’s attitude toward loss becomes gradually more serious as the poem progresses.

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This repetitious message throughout the poem implies that losing someone or something isn’t a “disaster”, but it is something very common and something everyone should accept in life and society. However, in the last stanza, the speaker changes his belief by acting on emotion. The speaker had lost a loved one and unlike the previous possessions he had lost, he could not get over this one. He still thinks about this person to current day, “Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan’t have lied.” This reveals that the author Elizabeth Bishop may have had the same situation in her life as she always held the belief that losing something wasn’t very depressing with the exception of losing a loved one in her father. In the current day, however, this set of ideas still exist. When a person loses a pair of headphones, they don’t get too upset over it as it can be replaced imminently, however, when a person loses a loved one, they will likely never forget about them. This idea behind losing hasn’t changed and will likely not change in the

According to Robert Stanley Martin, "Flaubert constructs the story around loss, specifically how Félicité deals with the losses of those she loves over the course of her life. He pays scrupulous attention to pace: her relationships with those she loses are treated with increasing detail as the story mounts." (Martin 2012). But while these losses could be seen as inevitable and part of the natural trajectory of a lower-class woman's life because of Flaubert's realistic, detailed narrative style, Flaubert's narrative also continually hints at an even greater loss, namely the loss of Felicite to enjoy a fully realized life.

Loss is something all people have to deal with. No matter how hard they may try, loss will come. Whether it as little as the television remote or as tragic as a family member, losing is part of everyday life. If it be the loss of a person, however, the recovery process can be harder. What if people could master the art of losing, meaning that losing so much could make a person more prepared to lose again? In Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art,” Bishop explores this idea with the clever use of a villanelle and becomes more aware of the persisting heartache of loss as she reflects on her own losses.

The point of the poem (at least at the outset) seems to be the speaker's discouragement at not having been able to write well enough about the lady's beauty. He's had writer's block. The cause was that her beauty was just too great a challenge for him to do justice to in verse. but the imagery of scaling walls might be taken more generally, as well. The final lines say that the pen, hand, and intellect are checked (restrained) and conquered (defeated) on a first attempt at something. So, if we pick our evidence selectively, you could say that this is an allegory about defeat in general. However, the very specific references to writing poetry and about the beauty of the woman in question suggests that the more specific interpretation is better

“One Art” is a villanelle which means it contains nineteen lines, with six stanzas, and five tercets, and a quatrain at the end. The end line rhyme scheme is aba and in the last stanza the rhythm scheme is abaa which is what makes it a quatrain. This ridged structure shows a level of great effort put into the writing of “One Art” which should be appreciated. As Bishop progresses through the poem the things she loses become more meaningful, she starts by losing her keys, something everyone has done but no one really has emotional attachment with their keys. It can be read in lines five, eight, ten, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, and sixteen that the intensity progressively increases as it becomes a name, then a family heirloom, then a house, then a city, then a continent, ultimately leading up to the loss of a person. This progressive structure is what makes the reader feel the intensity of the ultimate

Elizabeth Bishop quickens up the pace of the poem and takes it a bit further. In the beginning, she discussed losing trivial objects, such as keys. In the third quatrain, she mentions far more significant matters, such as places and names.

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

“Without thinking at all/I was my foolish aunt.”(48-49) , In “One Art” Elizabeth compares herself to her aunt. When her aunt cried out from the dentist office she felt her as a fullish women, but because she is reacting In a similar way to the magazine, she compares her aunts foolishness to her own. It was an unexpected realization that her reactions connected her to her aunt in a way she never felt before in her six years. “Lose something everyday. Accept the fluster/of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.”(48-49), The speaker wants to show us that theres nothing you can do but to accept you will lose things and to not let it get to you. In the poem her losses begin as insignificant objects that can be replaced but then she escalates her poem by significant losses like people, places, and homes. Its as if shes telling you to accept it, but she implicitly is showing us that shes not over her losses. She wants everyone to believe shes fine but we as the readers are not buying it.

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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.

Bishop wants us to believe that even though you lose something you’ll be ok. Everyone experiences loss and it’s no big deal, it won’t result in “disaster” is a repeated concept throughout her poem. But Bishop is fighting her feelings in the beginning of her poem and by the end lets her feelings slip and revels to us that she is sad. First, we must note that she is forcing herself to write this, that she does not want to admit that she is not as ok as she wants herself and others to think she is. In her first three stanzas, she mentions that she loses simple, trivial things like keys, names, an hour, etc.