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Essay Interpreting "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
In "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop, the speaker's attitude in the last stanza
relates to the other stanzas in verse form and language. The speaker uses these
devices to convey her attitude about losing objects.
The verse form in "One Art" is villanelle. The poem has tercet stanzas un ....
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.... show in "One Art" how the losses increase in importance
as the poem progresses, with the losses in lines 1-15 being mostly trivial or
not very important to the great loss in lines 16-19 or a beloved person.
Elizabeth Bishop suggests then that mastering the art of losing objects, such as
car keys, does not prepare one for the loss of a person, which adds more irony
to the title. There must be more than one art to losing, if losing a person is a
separate suffering.
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