"TRT OF LOSING ISN' T HARD TO MASTER ": ELIZABETH BISHOP' POETIC MASTERY OF LOSS

• Main Authors: TAMMY LI-YUI HUANG, 黃麗玉
• Other Authors: RAPHAEL J. SCHULTE
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1999
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86592970459115346182

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 英國語文學系 === 87 === The thesis discusses Bishop's wisdom from losing in order to present the art of losing isn't hard to master. These pieces are as serious, exploring, and as self-aware as those poems, stories and autobiographical essays in which Bishop reflected upon and used her experience of loss. I offer this thesis with a pragmatic purpose and comments. To prove my words, I discuss "the art of losing [that] isn't hard to master." It reveals Bishop's deep wish toward next mastery of loss. Bishop's works suggest what each of us needs to lose and find. No matter what it may be or when it will come, there always a confidence to face next loss: the art of losing [that] isn't hard to master. Consisting of seven parts, the thesis has five chapters beginning with an introduction and ending with a conclusion. With the application of "the art of losing that isn't hard to master", the writing of loss undergo a transformation loss to a gain to its readers. Elizabeth Bishop's writing of loss contains all kind of observations. Here I call it as the art of losing and define it in two aspects: one is her writing techniques in representing these losses, the other is the sophisticated attitude toward loss. This thesis is an attempt to discuss Bishop's wisdom from writing loss in order to present the art of losing isn't hard to master. Through the reconstruction of the process of losing, understand the traumatic experience and turn them as the wisdom in her writing to profit her readers.