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Bishop wrote seventeen drafts of the poem, [6] [self-published source] with titles including "How to Lose Things," "The Gift of Losing Things," and "The Art of Losing Things". [7] By the fifteenth draft, Bishop had chosen "One Art" as her title. [8] The poem was written over the course of two weeks, an unusually short time for Bishop. [7]
Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, [1] the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. [2]
Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1911, and, following the death of her father and the institutionalization of her mother, was passed from one relative to another. Her earliest years were spent on the coast of Nova Scotia. At Vassar, she decided to make poetry her life's work after meeting Marianne Moore. Bishop once said:
In 1933 Bishop's family returned to the United States, residing first in Connecticut, then New Orleans, and finally in a house on Cape Cod. His novel Act of Darkness , based on the true story of the rape of a prominent Charles Town social figure by a local Charles Town man, caused a scandal in the town when it was published.
Poetry analysis is the process of investigating the form of a poem, content, structural semiotics, and history in an informed way, with the aim of heightening one's own and others' understanding and appreciation of the work. [1] The words poem and poetry derive from the Greek poiēma (to make) and poieo (to create).
Bishop's verse was collected in three volumes during his lifetime: Paramount Poems, Spilt Milk and A Bowl of Bishop. A newspaper review of Paramount Poems (1929, its title page reading " 'If it isn't a PARAMOUNT, it isn't a poem.' — Morris Bishop") found it entertaining: [Bishop's] ear and his taste are vigorous, rough, unsubtle.
King John and the Bishop" is an English folk-song dating back at least [clarification needed] to the 16th century. It is catalogued in Child Ballads as number 45 and Roud Folk Song Index 302. It tells how King John , covetous of the bishop of Canterbury's wealth, compels him on pain of death to answer three impossible questions.
The bishop then returns to the fisherman's vessel anchored offshore in the rowboat and continues his voyage. While on board, the bishop notices that their vessel is being followed. At first, he thinks a boat is behind them, but he soon realizes that the three hermits are running across the surface of the water "as though it were dry land."