Unfoldingone Art

Part I of Essay
After quick scan of the poem "One Art", the reader should recognize the poem as having the closed form. The poem is regular, symmetrical, and falls into stanzas. The first five stanzas have three lines and the last stanza contains four lines. A longer peruse of "One Art" ....

Part II of Essay
.... sense of strangeness that can underlay ordinary events"("Elizabeth Bishop"). The text (Literature an Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama) makes reference to Bishop's use of metaphor. Elizabeth Bishop refers to losing as an art. The American Heritage Talking Dictionary defines art as a skill that is practiced ("art"). "One Art" makes specific reference to practicing losing (line 7). Loss is defined as a condition of being deprived or bereaved of something or someone ("loss"). Loss is not something done intentionally (such as the w ....