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“One Art” Elizabeth Bishop uses of a villanelle, daily speech, and parentheses in order to convey resignation and regret in “One Art.” Her turn in tone shows that while everyone has lost something and can get used to it, losing a person is unlike anything else. A villanelle features five tercets and one quatrain, a shift that Bishop uses to manifest the difference in tones directly on the page in structure. Inside the first five tercets, nothing massively important is lost. “Door keys” and an “hour badly spent” is average for readers. So far, everything is normal and as expected and while these losses are annoying, they are not painful or hard to deal with. Having tercet after tercet is expected as the pattern is set up amd is seen as …show more content…

Within the first five stanzas, Bishop focuses on losses everyone has felt and uses simple speech to truly include everyone. There are no difficult words or concepts so all readers understand what is being said. “Places and names” and a “watch” are not unusual to lose or forget. Some readers can not remember names and others never know the time because they forget or lose their watch. These occurrences are used to convince readers that losing something is not hard. However, a turn that happens here forces the speaker to see the truth of losing something.Suddenly, in the quatrain, Bishop starts using parentheses, showing the speaking talking to herself. Now, instead of trying to convince the readers that she is right, the speaker is trying to convince herself and the parentheses are her thoughts. She regrets losing “[(] the joking voice, a gesture I love [)]” and forces herself- “(Write it!)” - to say that losing this person is not a disaster. Yet, losing a person, whether it is a love or a family member is painful. It feels like a disaster no matter hard one tries to ignore it. Now, the speaker knows the feeling that she is trying to convince readers is unimportant, in fact, hurts. Loss is excruciating. Now, Bishop uses the speaker as her example as the speaker learns that loss is easy and is not a disaster until something as important as life is

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