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One Art Poem Analysis

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Timed RewriteLoosing anything is seemingly disastrous. Modern poet Elizabeth Bishop uses syntax and perspectivism in "One Art" to portray an accepting and discontented tone towards loss to convey that there are some feelings of deprivation that are just unconquerable.Throughout the whole poem, Bishop utilizes and a and b rhyme scheme except in her fourth and sixth stanza. Both of these pattern breaking stanzas have personal instances and thoughts. This strategy helps Bishop create her false sense of acceptance between lines 1-15. She assures the audience that everything will be fine if we accept the fluster as this will vanquish our feelings of loss. Unfortunately, in her fourth stanza she is reluctantly making a negative shift in her tone. …show more content…

This effect makes this stanza conspicuous and is practically telling us that this is the truth and that this disgruntlement is her true emotion towards this subject. Bishop reveals that she "shan't have lied" not only to the reader but to herself as well. She does still try to continue her charade by forcing herself to "Write it!" Which inevitably reveals her own inability to cope with loss. She eventually alters her diction as well to correspond with her honest attitude by saying "The art of losing isn't too hard to master" instead of the consistent "The art of losing isn't hard to master." Bishop reveals that despite what she stated earlier this action is in fact not "too hard", but nonetheless extremely difficult to accomplish.Bishop takes advantage of the perspectivism in the poem to, in a way, demand the readers to abide the loss. She urges her audience to "Lose something everyday" in order to convince us that a loss isn't the worst misfortune that could happen. However this command is overly optimistic and full of false hopes. What sane person would lose something repeatedly and deliberately just to overcome that negative

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