One Art
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"One Art" is a renowned villanelle by Elizabeth Bishop that meditates on loss and the art of mastering it through controlled, understated lyricism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| One Art canonical | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
poem
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villanelle ⓘ |
| author | Elizabeth Bishop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collection | Geography III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Elizabeth Bishop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstLine | The art of losing isn’t hard to master; ⓘ |
| form | villanelle ⓘ |
| genre | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasLine |
I love) I shan’t have lied.
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Lose something every day. ⓘ Lose something every day. Accept the fluster ⓘ of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. ⓘ —Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture ⓘ |
| influenced | contemporary treatments of loss in lyric poetry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
enjambment
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irony ⓘ parenthetical aside ⓘ refrain ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | confessional-influenced poetry (broadly associated) ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American poetry ⓘ |
| meter | iambic pentameter (predominantly) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controlled, conversational diction
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gradual emotional escalation ⓘ masterful use of villanelle form ⓘ meditation on personal and universal loss ⓘ |
| numberOfLines | 19 ⓘ |
| numberOfStanzas | 6 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| publishedIn | Geography III ⓘ |
| publisherOfCollection | Farrar, Straus and Giroux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refrainLine |
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
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though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster. ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA ⓘ |
| stanzaStructure | 5 tercets and 1 quatrain ⓘ |
| subject |
everyday losses
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geographical displacement ⓘ romantic loss ⓘ |
| subjectOf | extensive literary criticism ⓘ |
| theme |
acceptance of loss
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control and emotional restraint ⓘ grief ⓘ loss ⓘ memory ⓘ self-deception ⓘ |
| tone |
elegiac
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ironic ⓘ understated ⓘ |
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