ENGLISH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Free Verse, Dementia, Mantra
3 Jan 2021
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Denial as a form of control over loss. Convincing themselves that it doesn"t affect them. Repeats: the art of losing isn"t hard to master . Can use them to console anyone, relate to any personal loss. Wouldn"t think of losing things as an art. Acknowledgement of loss - i miss them . Acknowledges that it"s not something to spend entire life mourning. Slight tone of optimism when it"s stated it wasn"t a disaster . To master implies we have power over loss. Also implies it is something we can learn, something we can gain. Title: one art ; something that is universal, absolute. Even losing you - ambiguous, details personal loss to help readers understand and relate. Eased the reader into the loss of a person. Last stanza uses the words not too hard - really personal (write it!) looks inserted as kind of an afterthought - purposefully out of place, first use of italics and parentheses.
