Textuality » 3LSCA InteractingGSerena - One Art analysis
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As a first step we start with the analysis of the title. Now let's analyze the layout of the poem. The intelligent reader also realizes that there is a sort of refrain that is repeated four times, it consists of the phrase "The art of loosing isn't hard to master", with a small incremental repetition in the sixth verse (too). Even the term "disaster", repeated several times, can be considered a counter-refrain. The "I" voice talks to a "you" expressing sadness and sense of loss, while making ironical comments on the inevitability of losing objects and opportunities. It is part of life. Losing a loved one, however, is a much more painful experience. The words used are all in everyday use and the register adopted is informal, as underlined by the contracted forms "isn't, wasn't". Verbs are in the present tense and are almost all in the affirmative form. The rhyme scheme is ABA, and ABAA in the last verse. This is because the narrator wants to focus the attention of the intelligent reader on the message contained in the latter, signaled precisely through the diversity of length. In poetry there are metaphors, enjambments, assonances, alliterations and consonances. Marked punctuation, such as exclamation marks, hyphens, brackets, or other signals implying emphasis or a change of addressee. |