The literary device used here:
"I lost two cities, lovely ones. And vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent."
The theme of the poem.
What is regret and nothing lasts forever?
How many stanzas in the poem.
What is 6?
Her name.
Who is Elizabeth Bishop?
The connotation of variations of the word "losing" throughout the poem
A pastoral theme.
What is love and death?
The amount of lines in the last stanza.
What is 4 lines?
The name of the poem we analyzed.
What is "One Art"?
The effect of using alliteration in the sentence: "Then practice losing farther, losing faster"
What is a musical-sound; drawing attention to the sentence and putting emphasis on the word "losing"?
The theme(s) that connect most with the line, "None of these will bring disaster."
What is "nothing lasts forever"?
The kind of shift that happens when the author begins speaking to the reader.
What is a narrative shift?
Who she was raised by.
Who are her grandparents?
The tone the author put our of the word "master" in the poem?
Sentence: "The art of losing isn't hard to master"
What is ironic?
The theme(s) that connects most to the line "I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent."
What is "loss" or "nothing lasts forever"?
The structure of a villanelle poem.
What is ABA(x5) ABAA?
Another profession she had.
What is a painter?
The way "(Write it!)" Written in parenthesis, contributes to the tone.
What is making it sound more sarcastic?
The way the line "to be lost that their loss is no disaster." Contributes to the themes (nothing lasts forever, loss, regret).
What is making a loss sound less terrible because in the long run things get better?
The kind of shift that occurs when the poem is structuralized differently.
What is a structural shift?
Where she went to college.
Where is Vassar College in Poughkeepsie New York?