One Art

What is significant about the title of the poem?

• It suggests we need to be singular (One) in our focus on making something good come from bad.

• It is short just like how we can never hold on to things or people for long.

• It suggests that we remove the pain of loss by first levelling out everything that we lose; from door keys to houses to people (One) and second by mastering the fact of losing through practise (Art)

• It shows we need to make art out of suffering.

What is a villanelle

• a 19 line poem

• a poem written in iambic pentameter with an aba rhyme scheme

• a poem a poem written in iambic pentameter with an aba rhyme scheme, consisting of 5 tercets and a quatrain.

• A French form of poetry consisting of 5 tercets and a quatrain.

How does the form of the poem convey its meanings?

• The villanelle allows for a break in its pattern of tercets and tight rhyme, giving away to one quatrain with a repeated rhyme. Just as the structure cracks, as does the poetic voice.

• The villanelle shows us that loss is hard to master and brings great pain.

• The whole structure of the poem has regular rhymes and line lengths making it harmonic, hence a piece of beautifully constructed art.

• The form shows how the poet contains her feelings by having a regular structure.

Which thing that she lost first conveys a sense of emotional investment?

• door keys

• names

• an hour

• mother's watch

What word best describes the tone in the first stanza?

• monotonous

• matter-of-fact

• dull

• earnest

What does realm mean?

• kingdom

• holy place

• castle

• area

What does fluster mean?

• a state of anger and frustration

• an agitated or confused state

• serious upset

• can't be bothered

How would you describe the tone of 'Lose something every day?'

• serious

• reflective

• poignant

• flippant

What word best describes the tone of (Write it!)?

• hopeful

• resigned

• imperative

• philosophical

Who is addressed at the end of the poem?

• the reader

• her dead mother

• a lover

• a lost lover