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Elizabeth Bishop (8 February 1911 – 6 October 1979 / Worcester, Massachusetts)
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Poems by Elizabeth Bishop : 34 / 69
One Art
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster,
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She's not saying that writing poetry is a lost are form... She wants the reader to believe at mastering losing is easy, but it's not. It's more like she trying to convience herself that mastering losing is eas or even reacheble. At first she's starts talking about losing something minor like a key or a watch, but then she moves on to more vast things like a river and continent... Now she mentioned that she 'missed it', if you mastered the art of losing why would you miss something? In the last stanza she speaks about losing Love.. Which can easily be written but not believed.. And it's not the lost of a lover, but the lost of a friend...
Losing is easy but writing poetry has become something of a 'lost art, '... it's still practiced but seldom mastered.