Compare And Contrast One Art And The Scream

Have you ever experienced lost? Thought it was the end of the world? Thought you’d never recover? Ever wondered how to express your feelings? Many people lose a lot of things and express it in different ways, such as poetry, songs, paintings and stories. There is a poem called “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop and a painting named “The Scream” by Edvard Munch that both connect to each other because they are both losing something/someone and express what they lost differently. The poem “One Art” and the painting “The Scream” both depict lost because they both lose something/someone. Elizabeth Bishop writes her poem about how losing isn’t bad and that she lost a lot of things along with someone. The artist Edvard Munch has lost something or someone and painted about it. The painting shows that the sky is blood red and there is people walking away from him. This shows that they both experience loss in different ways but also, the same way. Elizabeth Bishop explains that she is losing things that she …show more content…
The reason why is because they either get left or leaving something behind. The poem explains that she moved to new cities and houses, and the painting shows that the people in the background are leaving him behind. The poem Elizabeth created states in lines 13-15 “ 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” this explains that she had to move around a lot and left some of her past behind. Also, she states in line 16 “Even losing you” which means she lost someone that was very special to her and someone she really cared about. On the other hand the painting shows two people walking away in the background and the sky is red. It shows that something dramatic has happened because the people are walking away from him and they sky is a blood red color which could be a symbol of something emotional