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Elizabeth Bishop
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. 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. I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn't hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. --Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
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Comment from Anonymous on July 14, 2005 3:33:08 AM PDT
nice, got to know this poem from this movie recently...liked it!
Comment from lathyrus on August 24, 2006 8:25:44 AM PDT
this is a person talking about losing at first, small, everyday things, then becoming grandoise- continents!!
eventually talks of losing not love- but friendship. possibly the thing we are least careful to preserve.
thats my take.
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Comment from Anonymous on October 17, 2005 5:48:09 PM PDT
this poem makes no sence
Comment from sweet pie on April 25, 2006 11:24:05 AM PDT
then you are an idiot
Comment from Anonymous on August 29, 2006 11:34:45 AM PDT
That could be because you don't even know how to spell.
Comment from Anonymous on February 20, 2007 2:56:53 PM PST
this poem makes no sence
Comment from sweet pie on April 25, 2006 11:24:16 AM PDT
poetry is an art of pacience and understanding and if you dont understand something you need to use a reference source because you need to understand because it may help you in life if you cant find a referance source think about it for a while or think of something else and it should come to you if not sleep on it
Comment from Young Poet on September 21, 2006 12:59:03 PM PDT
If you don't think this poem makes sence the you appearently aren't very educated and you didn't read the poem. You skimmed and you can't skim peoms and get their meaning....it's impossible.
Comment from Anonymous on May 3, 2006 6:42:37 AM PDT
This is a poem in a form called the villanelle. Bishop's poem moves from an almost lighthearted opening, a casual--positively cavalier, even--assurance that mastery is something possible and desirable, through an ever-growing expansion and explanation of loss, to a final address to a dead lover, whose loss was obviously the original impulse behind the writing of the poem. Art refers to poetry, to loss, and to life itself, all of which demand some type of mastery.
Comment from Anonymous on May 29, 2006 2:58:22 PM PDT
i feel deeply cut by this poem. i feel like it tells my story.
i've lost my very best friend, the one i love.
he passed away when i realized that i love him so much
then i read this poem.
it gives me strength to through all this pain.
Comment from tri wuri damayanti on July 23, 2006 5:10:13 AM PDT
what does (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) mean? She is missing his joking voice? Or she's saying 'you' in a joking voice? Or what?
Comment from Anonymous on August 9, 2006 10:49:06 PM PDT
loosing is one art anybody can master... sad that it is unavoidable also... loosing oneself, loosing yourself, i think that was what "YOU" meant in the joking voice meant.But even that, elizabeth redefines the art of loosing to an exercise of many levels. It's like, when we embrace the pain, we wont feel so lost though we stand so much to loose.
Comment from thumbelisa on August 12, 2006 5:01:16 AM PDT
ur poem is excellent , my nephew , told me 'bout it , 'n , i think is just great
Comment from palestina on August 13, 2006 6:55:58 PM PDT
Does anybody know the name of the book that this poem is read from in the moveie "In Her Shoes"
Comment from Anonymous on September 9, 2006 10:40:22 AM PDT
It is from Elizabeth Bishops Complete Collection of Poems 1927-1979
Comment from Trisha Irelan on October 8, 2006 7:47:56 PM PDT
i love this poem alot<3
it really touched me
i have had a familiar feeling to this
But i liked it alot
i hope to write like this in my future
but i still need years to be eduacted in writing poems
i love it<333
Comment from Destiny on September 9, 2006 4:33:45 PM PDT
I too learned of this poem from a movie I recently saw. It grabbed me and I had to look up Elizabeth Bishop and see what all she had written. Poetry can be difficult to understand but good poetry gets a hold on you and you are hungry for more.
Comment from Anonymous on September 9, 2006 10:24:11 PM PDT
She lost so much. Time, memory, her mother's watch--- the loss of the mother who was to watch over her---
the cities that she loved and the lover that died- and more. The only thing she can rely upon is the recurrence of disaster. She seems to say we are meant to lose over and over. To bear this grief we must practice loss so we do not succomb to disaster. It is a sad sad poem.
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Comment from Dina Recanati on September 11, 2006 12:47:20 PM PDT
I don't recall Bishop from high school or college courses. Sadly I too stumbled across this poem in the movie "In Her Shoes." It resonated a feeling within me though. I lost so much in life, the worst being my daughter to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome . I understand what she meant by mastering the art of loss. I often find myself preparing for the worst. Believing that if I envision it , it will be less painful when it comes to pass. The irony is that it is never any less of a disaster at the time. But you do know that you will somehow find a way to overcome it because you have mastered the art of losing.
Comment from Julia on September 16, 2006 12:53:27 PM PDT
I give this poem 1 thumb up and 1 in the middle
Comment from Young Poet on September 21, 2006 1:02:44 PM PDT
Well they've just discoved the cause of SIDS so hopefully they'll have a cure and so less mothers will have to master 'the art of losing'
Comment from Nicole on November 2, 2006 12:10:56 AM PST
this poem is dry.
Comment from Anonymous on December 12, 2006 12:19:53 PM PST
Any of you who said or replied to this poem not making "sence" are either (as suggested) idiots, bad spellers, or both:
S-E-N-S-E.
Comment from Anonymous on December 23, 2006 11:36:48 AM PST
one of the best poems i have ever read in my life
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Comment from Anonymous on March 6, 2007 12:38:04 AM PST
This love poem on loss suggests that life is defined but what we lose, rather than what we gain. It runs counter to both the dominant teleos of society ("Onwards and upwards!"), and its mythos of victory and personal development (related to the bootstrap ideology; "ten quick and easy steps to victory and success!").
Reminds me of Bataille's anti-dialectic dialectics; that what is lost, jettisoned, expelled, suppressed, are characteristics of life, although suppressed, in favor for what is "gained." (Every day forward is another day lost; every new experience represence a loss also of memories.)
We might find it pessimistic, although I rather see it differently. It unmasks and strips away the cultural myths (re: lies), it lifts up the cover, and then we have to decide what's under the surface; is there something essential here, an intimation of immortality (to quote Wordsworth?)...
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