Simone Bosich   3 LSCA

Activities from “It’s literature”

Pag 23 es 1

The poem might be about art; it may be about one specific type of art, that maybe is important for the poetess

Pag 23 es 2

1. It’s organized in six stanzas, five with three lines and the last with four lines
2. “the art of losing isn’t hard to master “is a kind of refrain and also the word “disaster” is a kind of it

Pag 24 es 3

It was quite difficult to read because of some words I didn’t know, but after I searched them it wasn’t so hard

Pag 24 es 4

I felt impressed and stunned in reading so much resignation, I think the speaker lost a lot of important things and people before writing this poem, thus she says this.

Pag 24 es 5

No, I can’t confirm my perceptions because it weren’t true at all. The speaker doesn’t seem resigned, but seems rather used to losing

Yes, after I watched the video, I perceive habit reading the poem

Pag 24 es 6

a)       The rhyme scheme is ABA and ABAA in the last stanza, but really the first A of the last stanza is a consonance, because of the repetition of only one consonant.

b)      Yes, there is. Their names are tercets and quatrain

c)       I think she would have a miserable tone, the pitch of someone that speaks about what made her suffer all her life.

d)      The speaking voice is addressing to a “you”, that isn’t the reader but a person she has lost.

e)      Yes, the speaker is trying to warn the reader that losing people and things is part of life, and even if when it happens, we are desperate, it is normal that it happens.

f)        Speaker says that in our lifes is so easy lose something or someone important for us that “the art of losing isn’t hard to master”, that we will lose every day and that we must be used to this.

Pag 24 es 7

No, reading the title I thought the poetess should speak about something related to art, meanwhile she speaks about losses of the life and the habit we must to have for them

Pag 24 es 8

a)       Stanza 3

b)      Stanza2

c)       Stanza1

d)      Stanza 6

e)      Stanza 4

f)        Stanza 5

Pag 25 es 9

1. Stanzas
2. Lines
3. Rhyme scheme
4. You
5. Loss
6. One
7. Disaster

Pag 25 es 10

a)       A The register is fairly informal, we understand it from the use of by contracted forms, there is also the use of common words like houses and places, that are used in the everyday language

b)      The scenes of the everyday life are easy to imagine, like losing door keys. Instead imagine to lose important people and places are more difficult

c)       Figure of speech:

• Enjambement: There is an enjambement between the verses 2 and 3 and 4 and 5
• Assonance: The art of losing isn't hard to master (ripezione a)
• Alliteration and consonance: Then practice losing farther, losing faster (ripetizione f)

Si many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster (ripetizione th)

Pag 25 es 11

A. The Art of losing is not hard to master, disaster, lose, lost, losing, look

B. Was you Meant, I lost, loved houses went, I lost, I owned, it wasn't, I shan't have lied

C. the art of losing isn’t hard to master, so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster, none of these will bring disaster, the art of losing’s not too hard to master though it may look like disaster

Pag 26 es 12

1. Loss, disaster, fluster, loved, lovely, I miss, joking, I love
2. Things, door keys, hour, places, names, mother’s watch, three houses, two cities, realms, two rivers, a continent, voice, a gesture

Pag 26 es 13

1. Present
2. Only one, the construction “to be lost”
3. Lose something, accept the fluster, practice losing, look! write it!
4. Affirmative

Pag 26 es 14

• Escamation marks: look!
• Words in brackets :(The joking voice, a gesture I love)
• -Even losing

Pag 26 es 15

The speaker reveals her feelings through a regular rhythmical scheme made of rhymes and enjambement telling us that some of the things she lost did not mean much, while others were important, even if she says they were not. The poem is organized in six stanzas, five tercets and a quartet, that maybe contains the most important message of the text.

The metaphor of 'losing' as an 'art' runs through the poem suggesting that losing things is not so important, and it must become an art for us, something we can do easily, because in life it happens every day to lose something. It becomes more difficult when we lose people and significant conditions, for those situations we need to learn the art of survival after a loss.

In the poem there is the use of past and present tenses. The past forms refer to the speaker’s losses overtime, instead present tenses show her current nostalgia and regret but also transforms her experiences in universal truths.

The words in brackets are as directed to itself

The use of the symbol – is to indicate the begin to the speech at the “you”

The last imperative, marked with the italic, with an exclamation point and in the brackets, is self-directed, forcing herself to write that the lost of the love is a disaster.

The lexis of the poem belongs to everyday language and the order in which are positioned the losses in the poem are established, the poetess starts to minor things up to talk about deeply losses.

Pag 26 es 16

Elizabeth Bishop is an American poet born in 1911 to William Thomas Bishop and Gertrude Bulmer Bishop and died in 1979. Before the age of five she lost her mother and father, so she was forced to live first by her grandparents, then by her father’s missing relatives and finally by her aunt. Despite everything she managed to graduate and write poems for important magazines such as The New Yorker.

She lived in the period of the two world wars a and in the following thirty years of the post-war period.

Pag 27 answers to the questions

• Is the poet about her losses? why?

Yes, the poet is very upset for some of her losses, like the continent, the three houses and the more important, the lover, even though she says that none of them was a disaster. only at the end, with the expression (write it!), the poet recognizes she should recognize only a loss as a disaster, that of the lover.

• Why are those losses relevant?

In the case of the three houses, the continent, the rivers, … these things are relevant because that evoke a memory in the mind of the reader, the person the poem is directed to is relevant for the poetess because he was important for her and she messes him.