One Art By Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979), Raised in Worcester Father dies when she was 8 month old Mother is sent to the loony bin Grandparents in Nova Scotia Shipping up to Boston Walnut Hill School, Vassar

Elizabeth Bishop World traveler Translator Pulitzer- North and South- 1956 Washington, Harvard, NYU, and MIT Lesbo Died in Oct. 6, 1979

One Art The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster. I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn't hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. --Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

One Art http://youtube.com/watch?v=FwPaIeQjihw

Villanelle Love Poem Two rhyming sounds ABA 19 lines Two Refrains Refrain 1 (A1) Line 2 (b) Refrain 2 (A2) Line 4 (a) Line 5 (b) Line 7 (a) Line 8 (b) Line 10 (a) Line 11 (b) Line 13 (a) Line 14 (b) Line 16 (a) Line 17 (b) Love Poem Two rhyming sounds ABA 19 lines Two Refrains Iambic Pentameter

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent   to be lost that their loss is no disaster.  

One Art It is easy to lose things We lose many things everyday we easily get over our loses

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster   of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.   The art of losing isn't hard to master.

One Art Lose small things Wasting time Not a great loss- easy to get over

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:   places, and names, and where it was you meant   to travel. None of these will bring disaster.  

One Art Losing more than just objects People, Places Get over these losses

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or   next-to-last, of three loved houses went.   The art of losing isn't hard to master.  

One Art Sentimental Value Watch Houses

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,   some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.   I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

One Art Destinations Hyperbole- her losses like continents they were so great

--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture   I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident   the art of losing's not too hard to master   though it may look like (//Write// it!) like disaster.

One Art She has lost some one she loved Can’t lie anymore (Write it)- Joking tone

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Sources (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bishop) http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15212 www.poets.org/ebish/ www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/bishop.php