One Art by Elizabeth Bishop is a poem which I liked very much because it connected to my personal life a lot. As we discussed in class, we do not have a rich vocabulary when it comes to explaining feelings but for some reason the author wrote enough for me to be able to relate to what is she trying to explain. She says that losing is an art, and that we should keep losing in order to work towards the perfection of the aforementioned "art". Elizabeth Bishop also gives us examples on what we should lose in order to master the feeling:
"Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster."
As you can infer, in the 2nd stanza above, the author also gives dimensions to losing (farther, faster).
I have had the chance to lose a lot in my life, so in a weird way, I know what the poet is saying about losing.
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