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Essay Interpreting "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
In "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop, the speaker's attitude in the last stanza
relates to the other stanzas in verse form and language. The speaker uses these
devices to convey her attitude about losing objects.
The verse form in "One Art" is villanelle. The poem has tercet stanzas until the
last, which is four lines. In the first three stanzas, the poem is told in
second person. "Lose something every day." seems to command one to practice the
art of losing things. In the three stanzas, first person is used, and the
speaker relates h....
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