One Art or published. Bishop's life was marked by loss and instability, which is reflected in many of the poems of "Geography III". "One Art" is narrated by a speaker who details losing small items, which gradually become more significant, moving, for example, from the misplacement of "door keys" to the loss of "two cities" where the speaker presumably lived. The poem is a villanelle, an originally French poetic form known for generally dealing with pastoral themes. Brad Leithauser wrote of the poem that, in addition to "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas, that it "...might have
Dylan Thomas Paul Ferris describes as "unusually blunt"; the ribald "Lament" and an ode, in the form of a villanelle, to his dying father "Do not go gentle into that good night". Despite a range of wealthy patrons, including Margaret Taylor, Princess Marguerite Caetani and Marged Howard-Stepney, Thomas was still in financial difficulty, and he wrote several begging letters to notable literary figures including the likes of T. S. Eliot. Taylor was not keen on Thomas taking another trip to the United States, and thought that if Thomas had a permanent address in London he would be able to gain steady work