Comments on: Poem of the Day: One Art http://ninaalvarez.net/2009/06/26/poem-of-the-day-one-art/ Read, Teach, Write, Think, Make, Speak, Publish Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:43:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: seanf http://ninaalvarez.net/2009/06/26/poem-of-the-day-one-art/#comment-3647 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:06:05 +0000 http://ninaalvarez.net/?p=801#comment-3647 Update: I should say, not close friend, but lover whom she had been unfaithful to, and had recently separated from after 15 years.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bishop (the ‘friend’ is the Brazilian socialite Soares who killed herself after Bishop broke off the relationship).

]]> By: seanf http://ninaalvarez.net/2009/06/26/poem-of-the-day-one-art/#comment-3646 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:54:40 +0000 http://ninaalvarez.net/?p=801#comment-3646 hmm…that’s not quite the way it’s usually read. if you care to do so, read it again, slowly, especially the last two lines.

bishop isn’t saying that one can let go and learn to deal with loss. she’s saying exactly the opposite – that one often can’t.

it’s a very sad poem indeed. she wrote it after the suicide of a close friend. there is no defense against loss.

]]> By: joanzeline http://ninaalvarez.net/2009/06/26/poem-of-the-day-one-art/#comment-3610 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:43:50 +0000 http://ninaalvarez.net/?p=801#comment-3610 absolutely true,learned from young age to let go,sometimes thats better to cope than hanging on.the good side of it you can carry on easier,the bad side its hard to hold on to anything,for u always will lose it.

]]> By: Michelle Johnson http://ninaalvarez.net/2009/06/26/poem-of-the-day-one-art/#comment-3579 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:22:36 +0000 http://ninaalvarez.net/?p=801#comment-3579 What an intriguing way to look at loss and disaster. Everything seems an upset to me if it doesn’t go smoothly so there is a lesson to be learned here by me.

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