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
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