Essay Interpreting "One Art" By Elizabeth Bishop
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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
until the last, wh ....
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.... describing in the fifth tercet that she lost "two
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 he ....
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