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Essay Interpreting "One Art" By Elizabeth Bishop
Beginning of Essay
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 ha .... Middle of Essay .... cities...some realms I owned."
Since she could not own, much less lose a realm, the speaker seems to be
comparing the realm to a large loss in her life. Finally, the statement in the
final quatrain "Even losing you" begins the irony in that stanza. The speaker
remarks that losing this person is not "too hard" to master. The shift in
attitude by adding the word "too" shows that the speaker has an ironic tone for
herself in her loss or perhaps her husband or someone else close to her.
Language and verse form 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 im ....
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