Elizabeth Bishop

“One art” by Elizabeth Bishop is a form of a villanelle, a repetitive poem that consists of nineteen lines that usual consists of two repeating rhymes and two refrains. In the poem the speaker is ranting in a letter to a loved one about how losing is easy and compares it as a skillful art. It is not apparent that the conversation is going on but at the end of the poem it is obvious that there is some sort of communication happening. The speaker of the poem repeats:” the art of losing isn’t hard…

Just as stated in “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop, “the art of losing isn’t hard to master.” However, as revealed at the end of the poem, it can seem easy to have a loss not bother an individual, but when one stops lying to themselves and let the loss hit them, there is a sense of sadness due to the realization of what is really lost. Something lost does not have to be always be a person or place, it can be miniscule as a cello. That miniscule object can seem like nothing of importance to another…

The poem “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop dramatizes the conflict between submitting to the pain of loss and looking around it. The speaker is a person who has undergone many loses and is finding difficulty in accepting their most recent loss. They start by giving the example of losing their door keys, providing the humorous image of looking everywhere for the small items. Then, the losses get more intense. We move onto losing their mother’s watch (worth sentimental value), property, and hopes, yet…

Her removal of the Papacy legitimized herself as Queen. This, however, was not Elizabeth I’s only reason to remove Roman Catholicism – Elizabeth I intended specific religious reform. In 1559, Elizabeth I established the Elizabethan Settlement which created a religion substantially more like Protestantism . England remained predominantly Catholic until Elizabeth I’s reign, when she established the ‘via media’ between Catholicism and Protestantism . The via media is the…

Once Elizabeth took the throne, Puritans were somewhere at a standstill. While her government did not satisfy them, did not purify the church of its ceremonies and vestments, did not get rid of the bishops and archbishops, but she did defy the pope and made England the mainstay for Protestantism against the catholic church of Spain. With her also accepting…

Reflection on Spirituality Unit Throughout the Spirituality Unit, I received a deeper insight and understanding about Catholicism and Aboriginal beliefs. As I discovered new information, I also started to develop more enquiries. This lead to further investigation and research on the topics I found intriguing, hence, a more fulfilling and enriching experience. In the past week, I learnt that the Aboriginal religion is very totemic. This is due to the fact that Aboriginal communities have totems…

In John Patrick Shanley’s play, the struggle for Sister Aloysius to prove—and for Sister James to believe—that Father Flynn molested Donald Muller serves as the central conflict. Father Flynn is progressive, hoping to reform the church which causes the more conservative Sister Aloysius to appear intolerant and suspicious of him simply for his radical ideas. This conflict addresses other concerns beyond abuse, such as that of the subjugation of gender in the Catholic church, which affects Sister…

Women’s roles in the Catholic church have remained relatively consistent in the fact that women have never been allowed to become priests but have continued their service to the church in the role as nuns. Even though the church has modernized in other ways, they have not caught up to improving gender equality in the West. Why is this still a controversial issue especially since in other denominations of Christianity, such as the Methodist church, have appointed women preachers? This is still an…

The Church had separate trials and punishments to those of the monarch’s, any member of the Church who committed a crime would be judged in the Church court. The Church would judge a person’s innocence through trials by ordeals. These ordeals include ordeal by poison, water, pulling an object from boiling oil, carrying hot metal over a certain distance, walking over hot coals if one of the burns got infected, the person would guilty. If a person would be found guilty, assuming that they weren’t…

Liturgical Church Evaluation: Prince of Peace Catholic Church For my evaluation of a liturgical worship service, I visited Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Muskegon, Michigan. I attended the 10:30 mass on Sunday March 6th. Before the service, I was very excited to experience worship in a liturgical setting. Having learned about liturgical worship in class, I developed a greater appreciation for the the way that many of our Christian brother and sisters worship. Their tradition and…