Elizabeth Bishops “One Art,” is an emotional poem that displays’ losing is not just an art, but a mastered skill. This is shown from a series of losing minor items, leading up to treasured loss; becoming personal and therefore something she can not master. Although, it may seem that “One Art” transmits the basic idea that losing something is a disaster, the speaker makes it a point to emphasize words to prove many losses are not disasters. The protest of disaster is repeated throughout the whole poem. Bishop uses different literary devices to express her thoughts.
The speaker uses verse form and language to show her attitude about losing objects. The verse form is a villanelle, which is a nineteen line poem consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. In the second stanza, the poem is told in second person. “Losing something everyday,” seems to tell us to practice the art of losing thing
Also, the speaker uses hyperboles when describing in the fifth tercet that she lost “two cities… some realms I owned.” Since she clearly did not own two cities or lose a realm, she compares this to a big loss in her life.
An emotional poem which displays' losing isn't just an art, but a master skill is shown is, "One Art" written by Elizabeth Bishop. Different literary devices are used to
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