Losing is not a science nor has it ever been considered an art, yet some would contend that life is constructed around the concept of losing. In Elizabeth Bishop’s sonnet "One Art", the author concentrates on the craft of losing and how to understand misfortune. The last thoughts provided by Bishop in her final stanza correspond with the remainder of the works’ implications, including recognition, empathy, realistic expectations, and the understanding needed for positive development. Through her work, Bishop displays the qualities of misfortune one must be mindful of so as to triumph over it, this concept is much a correlation to what many endure as they experience the shortcomings of life.
"One Art" approaches misfortune in a fairly evasive and oblique fashion. It doesn't make any direct implications to substantial issues, but rather starts with insignificant commodities. In this …show more content…
In the initial two sentences misfortune and affection are interlaced with each other not only in attempt to admit how they are bound, but to give proceeding to the confirmation to the "I love" (17). “In placing the proclamation ‘I love’ on a separate line, Bishop emphasizes the words, allowing them to stand alone with the feelings they evoke” (Ritcher), therefore the most emotional words of the work are not downplayed by being parenthesized but are seen with seen as withholding her worst loss yet. In this stanza Bishop “states that even losing the person that the audience presumes to be her lover was easy” (Smith), claiming “it’s evident / the art of losing’s not too hard to master” (17-18). In this Bishop is able to appeal to the audience in convincing them that loss of a lover or loved one, something which is seen as such a dreadful experience, becomes morphed into a mundane feeling. It loses its impact and becomes familiar, no longer a threat but a
"One Art" approaches misfortune in a fairly evasive and oblique fashion. It doesn't make any direct implications to substantial issues, but rather starts with insignificant commodities. In this …show more content…
In the initial two sentences misfortune and affection are interlaced with each other not only in attempt to admit how they are bound, but to give proceeding to the confirmation to the "I love" (17). “In placing the proclamation ‘I love’ on a separate line, Bishop emphasizes the words, allowing them to stand alone with the feelings they evoke” (Ritcher), therefore the most emotional words of the work are not downplayed by being parenthesized but are seen with seen as withholding her worst loss yet. In this stanza Bishop “states that even losing the person that the audience presumes to be her lover was easy” (Smith), claiming “it’s evident / the art of losing’s not too hard to master” (17-18). In this Bishop is able to appeal to the audience in convincing them that loss of a lover or loved one, something which is seen as such a dreadful experience, becomes morphed into a mundane feeling. It loses its impact and becomes familiar, no longer a threat but a