Exercises“It’s literarature” pag. 24-26

N_3 pag.24

No, it isn’t because the word are colloquial.

N_4 pag.24

I felt sad and I understand what the poet felt.

N_5 pag.24

Yes, I can. No, they aren’t.

N_6 pag.24

1. The rhyme scheme is ABA, and ABAA in the last stanza
2. Tercet and quatrain
3. I think she would be sad
4. The poetess talk with the reader
5. The poetess wants to say to the reader that is normal to lost something or someone
6. The poetess talks about losing something or someone

N_7 pag.24

Yes, they do.

N_8 pag. 24  

a/ stanza 5

b/ stanza 2

c/ stanza 1

d/ stanza 1

e/ stanza 4

f/ stanza 5

N_9 pag.25

1. Stanzas
2. Lines
3. Rhyme scheme
4. ‘you’
5. Loss
6. One
7. Disaster

N_10 pag.25

1. The language is informal.
2. Yes, I can.
3. Metaphor: the poem itself can be read as a metaphor: “one art” my suggest that the art of losing and the art of writing poems are one and the same. We refine our ability to lose things, making it an “art”

Enjambment: 2-3/ 4-5/ 8-9/ 11-12/ 16-17

Assonance: 1 the a / 8 the a

Alliteration and consonance: 2-3 s/m/th

N_11 pag.25

Repetitions: the art of losing isn’t hard to master, be lost/lost door keys/ I lost; no disaster/ bring disaster/ wasn’t a disaster; losing farther/ losing faster/ even losing you; and look!/ look like

Past tenses: you meant; I lost; loved houses went; I lost; I owned; it wasn’t; I shan’t have lied

Statements: the art of losing isn’t hard to master; their loss is no disaster; none of these will bring disaster; the art of losing’s not too hard to master

N_12 pag.26

1. Word referring to feeling and emotions: intent, loss, fluster, loved, lovely ones, I miss, joking, I love
2. Nouns describing or defining her losses: things, door keys, hour, places, names, mother’s watch, three houses, two cities, realms, two rivers, a continent, voice, a gesture

N_13 pag.26

1. Present
2. To be lost
3. “lose something”; “accept the fluster”; “practice losing”; “look!”; “write it!”
4. Affirmative

N_15 pag.26

The speaker reveals her feeling throught a rhythmical scheme made of rhymes and enjambments felling us that some of the things she lost did not mean much, while easily learnt art may make us smile, because it refers to something that happens involuntarily and that we have no desire to become good at. the metaphor of ‘losing’ as an ‘art’ runs through the poem suggesting that losing things is not so important, but losing people and significant conditions, such as living in a certain place or house, is much more serious, and we need to learn the ‘art’ of survival after a loss.

Verbs also provide meaningful information. In the poem, past forms refer to the speaker’s losses over time; most lines, however , are in the present tense, showing her current nostalgia and regret but also transforming her experiences into universal truths. There are some imperatives, addressing both the implied listener/reader (‘you’) and us readers, who are asked to get used to losing things. The last imperative, instead – marked by italics, an exclamation mark and brackets – is self-directed, forcing herself to write that the loss of love Is disaster, and finally bringing together loss and poetry as ONE art.

The lexis refers to everyday life, making it easier for the reader to identify with the speaker. Starting with minor things, such as keys, the poem moves to deeply disturbing losses: memories, cities, rivers, continents, and even the person she loved.