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The keys and the house are not in her possession any longer but the "cities, rivers, and caves" do not belong to her as they once did. This kind of loss, too, does not represent what the poet would define a disaster. However, true loss is explored in the last stanza
The poet's real intention emerges in this stanza as she turns to more personal and private matters. The last stanza is the most powerful in that the poet moves from speaking about things to people - more significantly, "you." The poet also attaches noteworthy attributes to the lover by remembering the "the joking voice, the gesture / I love" (16-7), which move her to reinforce the notion that loss is not difficult to master. It is worth noting that the punctuation in this stanza because it strays from what the poet has employed in earlier stanzas. The dash before "Even" indicates a break in thought as the poet moves to the one thing that truly serves to be a great loss. The parenthetical phrases make the enclosed words stand out even though the poet attempts...
By breaking from her previous method, she is simply drawing more attention to them. The poet lost the joking voice and the gesture that she loved and these are not things that have been misplaced or things that can be replaced. Similarly, the poet also includes "write it!" (19) in parentheses to wrap up the irony in the poem. Losing is an art that no one in particular wishes to master and the writing about it does not make the art any easier.
One Art" demonstrates how we can become masters of things when we are not actually trying but these things are not necessarily good for us. The poet's example of losing is the perfect example of this and, with irony, we see how the poet illustrates how easy this art actually becomes over time. In the end, we see that the poet has not mastered the art so much as the art mastering her.
Works Cited
Bishop, Elizabeth. "One Art." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Drama and Poetry. Kennedy, X.J., ed. New…
Works Cited
Bishop, Elizabeth. "One Art." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Drama and Poetry. Kennedy, X.J., ed. New York: Longman. 1998.
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