Close Up: One Art

Question 1

By who ?
When born
What happened eight months after her birth
Lived with who where
What began as a childhood sanctuary became

Answer 1

Elizabeth bishop
1911
Her father died maternal grandparents for five years in great village Nova Scotia
Landscape of meaning

Question 2

What happened in June 1916 when she was five
When did she die
Her mother’s reality and death remained a ?

Answer 2

Mother suffered a breakdown and was institutionalized in Nova Scotia hospital
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Powerful oblique theme enters the villanelle here

Question 3

One art plays with the ?

Answer 3

Strictness of the villanelle in subtle heartbreaking ways

Question 4

Tone of the poem?

Is at odds with the finality of ?

Answer 4

Throwaway brave resilient

Dark voice of the form whose refrains suggest the finality of these losses from small to great

Question 5

What losses

Answer 5

Keys a watch a city human love

Question 6

Her voice to formalize this heartbreaking catalogue of losses emphasizes
Allows no easy
The coda?
The repetition allows them to

Answer 6

The forms power for 20th century poets
Narrative resolution
The art of losing
Take new meaning each time it’s repeated

Question 7

The words of loss become

Answer 7

Louder different ominous and more human

Question 8

The effect of the villanelle ? Was well understood by Bishop

Answer 8

To make an acoustic chamber for single words