1) Just considering the title the intelligent reader is sure that the poem will be about art, but he’s curious to know which particular art the text talks about.

2A) As for the layout the poem is arranged into 5 stanzas of 3 lines, while the last one is made of 4 lines. So it’s made up of 5 tercets and one quatrain.

2B) Looking at the first line the reader can recognize a kind of refrain. Indeed, the sentence “The art of losing isn’t hard to master” is repeated in stanzas 2,4 and 6. Also the word disaster appears so many times in the text.

3) The reading experience is quite easy as for the lexicon, but require attention.

4) The poem conveys a sense of loss, impotence, sadness but mostly love.

6A) The rhyme scheme is ABA in the first 3 stanzas, while is ABAA in the last one, whose the first line is an example of consonants.

6B) Tercet and quatrain.

6C) The tone would be serous and a bit sad.

6E) She speaks to a ”You” , who is the persona that she lost.

6F) The poetess reminds the recipient that losing things and people is aa part of life and we have to become master of the art of losing because even if this losses can seem a disaster, the life go on exactly as before.

7)Yes, they do, because the poem talks about an art, even if it is not the usual one.

8)stanza 3, stanza 2, stanza 1, stanza 6, stanza 4, stanza 5.

9) stanzas, lines, rhyme scheme, loss, one ,disaster.

10A) The register is informal, indeed, there are lots of contractions, like “ Isn’t” or “Wasn’t.

10B)I can easily visualise the loss of Objects, while is more difficile visualising the loss of abstract things.

10C)Enjambement:

“So many things seem filled with the intent/to be lost that their loss is no disaster”

“Accept the fluster/ of lost door keys, the hour badly spent”

“Places, and names, and where it was you meant/ to travel”

“And look! My last, or/next-to-last, of three loved houses went”

“-even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture/I love). I shan’t have lied. It’s evident/”

Metaphor:

The poet can be read as a metaphor, indeed the title may suggest both the art of losing and the art of writing poems.

Assonance:

“The Art of losing isn’t hArd to mAster”

“PlAces, And nAmes, And where it ..”

Alliteration:

“So Many Things SeeM fiLLed wiTH The inteNT/ to be LoST THat Their LoSS is no disaSTer”

11)GREEN: the art of losing isn’t hard to master; be lost/lost door keys/I lost; no disaster/bring disaster/wasn’t

a disaster/like disaster; losing further/losing faster/ even losing you; and look! /look like.

BLUE: you meant; I lost; I loved houses went; I lost; I owned; It wasn’t; I shan’t have lied

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

of losing is not too hard to master.

12A)Intent, loss, fluster, loved, lovely ones, I miss, joking, I love.

12B)Things, door keys, hour, places, names, mother’s watch, three houses, two cities, realms, two rivers, a

continent, voice, a gesture

13A) Present

13B)There is one in full form: “To be lost”, and two implicit forms :”Lost door keys, an hour badly spent”.

13C)Yes, there are. (“Lose something”, “Accept the fluster”, “Practice losing”, “Look!”, “Write it!”)

13D) Affirmative.

14)The use of numbers.

16)Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and writer. Considered one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, he won numerous and important prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1956 and the National Book Award in 1970. In addition to poetry, he devoted himself to prose and painting.