She left him as summer ended, but he still thinks about her long into the fall. The ‘turn(ing) away’ indicates her pain, for which he clearly feels guilt, expressed in the understated ‘compelled my imagination … ’

The verbal mood is now past indicative: he is remembering.

Things on all scales seem difficult to hold onto, and are “filled with the intent” to be lost, as if they have wills of their own; an example of personification. Keys are elusive, and so are lives. “One Art” was composed about a decade after Elizabeth Bishop’s longtime partner, Lota Soares, committed suicide, the most profound kind of ‘intent to be lost’ there could be.

Notice the line break after intent followed by the unexpected To be lost. The next stanzas show a difference between what was intended and what actually happened: She intended to spend an hour usefully, but wasted it instead. She intended to travel, but failed to do so. And she certainly didn’t intend to lose her partner.

Note the last lines form an alternating refrain or anaphora, characteristic of the villanelle The repetition builds emphasis.

Daisy’s voice is a powerful tool that moves Gatsby unlike anything else about her. Whenever her voice emerges, low and murmuring, it captures everybody around her and embodies all of Gatsby’s rags-to-riches dreams, complete with his “golden girl”.

Nick described Daisy’s voice like this in Chapter 1:

I looked back at my cousin who began to ask me ques- tions in her low, thrilling voice. It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down as if each speech is an arrange- ment of notes that will never be played again.