Textuality » 3LSCA InteractingOSponza - DAD WEEK I - Da Pag. 23 A Pag. 27
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scusi professoressa per i lritardo, ma mi ero completamente dimenticata di caricarle i compiti. Mi scusi ancora.
ONE ART – ANALYSIS L’arte di perdere non è difficile da imparare; così tante cose sembrano compiersi con la voglia di andare perdute, ma questo loro perdersi non è un disastro.
Perdi ogni giorno qualcosa. Accetta l’ansia per le chiavi della (tua) porta perdute, per l’ora inutilmente sprecata. L’arte di perdere non è difficile da apprendere.
Esercitati a perdere di più e più velocemente: luoghi e nomi e la meta che pensavi di raggiungere. Niente di tutto questo sarà un disastro.
Ho perduto l’orologio di mia madre. E guarda! Se n’è andata anche l’ultima, o prossima a esserlo, delle mie tre amate case. L’arte di perdere non è difficile da imparare.
Ho perso due città e belle. E, più vasti, furono miei alcuni regni, due fiumi, un continente. Mi mancano, ma perderli non fu un disastro.
Anche perdere te (la voce scherzosa, il gesto che amo) non mi farà cambiare idea. È evidente l’arte di perdere non è poi difficile da apprendere ma somiglia (scrivilo!) a un vero disastro.
The poem might be about one specific type of art. There are five stanzas of three line each, while the last stanza is made of 4 lines. I delect “the art of losing isn’t to master” is the refrain because it is repeated four time in 1, 2, 4 and 5 stanzas, even if in the five stanza it is a minor variation: “the art of losing’s not too hard to master. Also the word “disaster” was repeated four time. The rhyme scheme is ABA, and ABAA in the last stanza, whose first line is an example of consonance (the repetition of the same consonant sound at various points of subsequent words, especially on stressed syllables) than rhyme. The words are: faster, vaster, disaster. The structure of the poem is tercets in the first, second and third stanzas and quatrain in the last stanza. The speaker addresses a “you” who is not the reader but he or she is the person has lost. The poet reminds the recipient “you” that losing things and people is part of life; we become masters at “the art of losing” and learn that life tends to go on as before, although any loss may initially be experienced as disaster. Compere my previous answer to the prediction made before reading the poem is different. The title suggests something about art, whereas the text is about various types of loss and the feelings connected to them. I think that the poet choose the word “art” because it represents various type of sentiment and he choose to represent a one type of loss. While I was reading the text I was feeling sadness, a sense of loss, despair and frustration. The register is fairly informal, as shown by contracted forms and the direct address to the listener through imperative and the pronoun “you”. There are some common words such as “places”, “names”, “houses”, and most of the vocabulary belongs to everyday language. Common situations like losing a watch or keys, or wasting time, are easy to imagine. It is more difficult to visualize losing cities, rivers or people. The poem itself can be read as a metaphor (a term that describes another word through analogy): “One Art” may suggest that the art of losing and the art of writing a poem are one and the same. We refine our ability to lose things, making in an “art”. There are also a enjambment (a line whose syntax and meaning run over into the next). For example in the line two and three the verse: “so many things seem filled with the intent … to be lost that their loss in so disaster” or in the lines four and five the verse: “accept the fluster … of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.” There are an examples also of assonance (the repetition of vowel sounds within a series of words or within a sentence). For example in the first line “the art of losing isn’t hard to master”. The prevailing tense is the present. There are any passive form for example “to be lost” or “lost door keys”. There are also any imperatives for example “lose something” or “accept the fluster”. The min sentence type is affirmative. |