"One Art," by Elizabeth Bishop, is an emotional elegy in which losing isn't just an art, but a mastered skill. ... The first stanza gives the poem an instructional structure to it, where the reader is the student and Bishop the teacher. ... Here Bishop breaks the pattern of inanimate objects and dedicates a full stanza to focus on her final and most personal loss. The poems irony comes out through Bishops use of rhyming, rhythm, syntax, tone, and structure. ... This rhyme scheme gives the poem a cheerful beat, which was Bishop's intent to cover up the seriousness of the poem. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Elizabeth Bishop, in the opening lines of "The Fish" wrote: "I caught a tremendous fish and held him out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth." (751) The image that develops within the reader is exact and measured, leaving no doubt what is being described. ... Works Cited Roethke, Theodore, "My Papa's Waltz" Literature An Introduction To Reading And Writing, 2001, Page 831 Bishop, Elizabeth. ...

• Word Count: 652
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Other than appointing the prime minister, 'Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith' is little more than a figurehead, unlike when England was once ruled by monarchs with absolute power. ... The House of Lords consists of life peers to serve in the final court of appeals, or "law lords", all other life peers, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishops of London, Durham and Winchester, and the 21 senior bishops of the Chu...

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Examples of these schemes include that of Norwich, which was developed at the start of Elizabeth's reign, and was said to last around the 1580's, and that of London, which was also introduced in this era. ... The Bishop of Norwich was also the town councillor and therefore had a say in the municipal scheme that the city had in place. ...

• Word Count: 1093
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Originally, Patrick had envisaged establishing the system of Bishops and Archbishops like in other countries but the lack of roads and towns, and the absence of political unity meant that monastic religion remained more suitable. ...

• Word Count: 10019
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate