Villanelle Meaning

The significance of Villanelle form to One Art

One Art" is Elizabeth Bishop's poem of a villanelle, a form she admired and tried to work with for years as we know that she works so hard to achieve in many drafts. It is widely considered a splendid achievement of the villanelle and the subject of this poem is loss. “One art” in this poem is the art of losing showing us about why she compares loss to an art by using the appropriate form of villanelle that can help the readers understand more about the difficulty theme of this poem. Villanelle is an old form with its distinctive pattern of rhyme and repetition containing nineteen lines and two different lines which are systematically repeated in the poem. It is possible that she choose …show more content…
Loss involves in repetition because the writer says that loss can happen any time and it can happen repeatedly in everyone’s life as everyday loss. Another meaning is in order to master loss; we have to practice repeatedly to make it easier to be able to accept it. Moreover, the meaning of art in this poem is also about repetition. At first, art for me is something that was produced by the artists such as paintings, poem or something that we can see and touch it. Elizabeth changes my thought that the real art is something that needs practice. The artist who wants to get an art is required to practice doing it repeatedly because it needs practice. Both Loss and art is something that requires practice, so she compares loss to an art. Therefore, the way that poet uses this repetitive form is very appropriate with the meaning of both loss and …show more content…
The idea starts since the title of this poem which is contain much meaning. Being titled One Art ultimately implies that dealing with loss is a type of art in itself. An art requires extreme effort on the artist's part. She said that if you practice to accept loss it can help you to not being sad very much when this kind of situation occurs with you any time. Even though she knows that you can not accept it one hundred percent, it is better than you did not do anything. In the same way, if you want to invent or create an art, you should practice a lot to achieve it, but it does not mean that practice a lot will surely get art, and again it is better than doing nothing because you will get nothing as well. We have to try our best first even if the result will not satisfy; we know that we do the best so that we can be proud of ourselves than doing nothing. It is obvious to see that she state this idea many times in this poem that is because she is controlling her own emotion to think that she should master loss as she write it in the poem. She try to tell herself that it is not hard to master until the last that she know it is hard to tell herself that it is not hard. This repetitive idea and emotion makes her choose villanelle to express