Elizabeth+Bishop*

//One Art *//
- There's a shift in tone from the first few stanza to the last few. At first she utilizes a very frivolous tone when discussing losing things, but when she starts to talk about her mother's watch and the houses she's not as accepting. - Begins slowly with material goods that are easier to lose and then Bishop makes her way to the more meaningful things that are difficult to lose. - Bishop personifies the objects and is saying that they //want// to be lost. - Keys and time are both said to be lost in the same stanza, which demonstrates that to the speaker these things are equivalent. - Even though the speaker seems to be nonchalant about the losses, it is obvious that it is slowly tearing her down and that she is simply putting on a mask, which society deems necessary. - The speaker is trying to convince herself that she is not sad about losing a number of meaningful things in her life. - At the end the speaker is finally able to face her emotions about how she is upset with the loss of her lover.