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One Art Letters Elizabeth Bishop Robert Giroux Books

This is a timeless work. Elizabeth Bishop is a fascinating and modern woman and her letters are relevant to today.


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One Art Letters Elizabeth Bishop Robert Giroux Books Reviews

The poem "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop explores the delicate topic of losing someone close to your heart. Elizabeth Bishop was born in 1911 in Worcester, Massachusetts. When she was a young child, her father died and her mother was sent to a mental asylum. Elizabeth was then sent off to live with her grandparents in Nova Scotia. Elizabeth Bishop is loved for her true to life poems and the way they reflect upon her life. Later in her career, Elizabeth received a Pulitzer Prize for her wide selection of poems.

"One Art" is a closed form poem with a rhyme scheme of A B A. For example, the first stanza is "The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things are filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster." Master and disaster rhyme so they are both A's and then the word intent would be B so that would rhyme with the B line in the second stanza. The A B A rhyme scheme carries throughout all six stanzas and the poetic meter is trochee. For example in the words "the art", "the" is stressed and "art" is unstressed.

Throughout the poem Elizabeth Bishop mentions hints and what and who her poems are about. In "One Art" the point of view is coming from Elizabeth herself. She mentions in the sixth stanza that "-Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shant have lied. It's evident the art of losing is not too hard to master though it may look like (write it!) a disaster." Since the words joking voice are in parenthesis I think it symbolizes her father or the person she lost. Also, in most of the stanzas the text says something like "The art of losing isn't hard to master, though it may look like a disaster". What this is saying is we lose so many things in our lives that we get used to it and get so good at learning the art of losing. This is my favorite line of the poem because people don't always realize that everyone has gone through the process of losing someone or something close to their heart. This poem starts off simple, yet intriguing and then as it builds you can really see the emotion and hard work pour on to the page. Furthermore, the storyline continues to grow with everything else in the poem. In every stanza Elizabeth Bishop gives more examples, per say about losing things that affect your life.

The art of losing is a hard thing, but once you learn to appreciate it you'll be okay in no time. This is why I love inspiring poem "One Art".
What's not to like???? Take it in slow, like the perfect aging cheese!! LOOOOOOOOVE Elizabeth Bishop in any form!!
I was a junior in college when I first read this book and subsequently viewed some of Elizabeth Bishop's handwritten poems/manuscripts/letters, etc. at the New York Public Library's Hand of the Poet exhibit. I was in love, enthralled, forever changed by this amazing woman's poems and her voice. These letters are an intimate look into the life of one of the most talented and elusive poets of the 20th Century. What a life of heartbreak and obstacle and yet she remained keenly interested in the human challenge--and amazingly connected to those she knew. In this age where the art of communication has been nearly wholly lost, to read this collection of letters is like stepping back in time. Bishop reminds us that the most important connections are those we make with others--and that taking the time to put pen to paper and to fully observe our world is the most priceless gift. I cannot recommend this collection highly enough. Buy one for yourself and one for any young person you know. Inspire yourself to write letters and learn from a true master. Bishop's voice and the intricacies of her personality shine through in this collection. A rare find from a rare and truly incredible poet.
In this amazing collection of Elizabeth Bishop's selected letters, all of the various nuances of her most personal voice --warm, intimate, keenly observant, whimsical and humorous, generous, shy, gutwrenchingly honest, decorous and demure -- come through with astonishing human clarity. Bishop's engaging and elegant epistolary style makes reading One Art almost like reading an epistolary novel. The collection certainly functions as a fascinatingly candid biography of the somewhat shy and elusive Bishop, and also provides marvelous glimpses of both her writing processes, and the contextual background against which many of her poems emerged. Mostly, though, I found myself liking Elizabeth Bishop to excess . . . her humor, her eye for detail, her weirdly shy and modest charisma, even her flaws . . . and wishing that I could have been one of her inner circle of friends receiving these wonderful letters.
I have background on Elizabeth Bishop. So the information really isn't so new to me.
Amazing and wonderful insights collected here- and how lucky we are to have the ability to know and understand so much about EB and her most admired and intimate longtime friends.
An essential for my poetry library and I am most pleased to have it. gto
This is a timeless work. Elizabeth Bishop is a fascinating and modern woman and her letters are relevant to today.