Analysis Of The Poem 'One Art' By Elizabeth Bishop

In “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop, she writes a haunting piece about the difficulty in coping with loss ⏤ despite previous losses, by using imagery of previous places and items, such as two beloved cities and her mothers watch, that are insignificant in comparison to the loss of the person Bishop loved. Mentioning her most precious materialistic belongings she has lost, is a distraction ⏤ a way of coping. Bishop, throughout the eulogy, provides a sarcastic tone with all of her losses, trying to make things seem better than they are. Referring to the size and numbers included in her losses, such as her “three loved houses” (Bishop, line 11) or “some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent” (Bishop, line 14) , are an attempt to prove to herself