Ep. 2 - Bishop's "Art"

Today’s poem is Elizabeth Bishop’s villanelle “One Art” from her The Complete Poems 1927-1979. In this episode, I discuss the form of the villanelle, give a basic lesson on meter and the iambic foot, and then line-read key areas of the poem in the style of the New Criticism. “One Art” may be found here — https://poets.org/poem/one-art — on the website of the Academy of American Poets. For a visual breakdown of the villanelle form, take a look at this from The Yellin Center: http://blog.yellincenter.com/2013/04/national-poetry-month-villanelle.html Video Playlist for this episode available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsCSOhPVsdBHWpy2I_O2TUA/