In Elizabeth Bishop's 'One Art' she discusses loss in many different forms, whether concrete or abstract. His full message though is that it's inevitable that we lose throughout our lives, but losing shouldn't be a disaster in the end. In lines 1-15, she discusses losing objects in your life, whether concrete or abstract. What she's trying to point out is that losing is something we do automatically, which makes it easy to master. She wants us to realize that losing these items is not a bad decision on our part but simply a habit. In line 5, she refers to her lost keys and in line 10, to her mother's lost watch. Both items may seem important and have some value at the time, but losing them won't ruin one's life. She states "losing something every day" in line 4, and she is right, we lose things every day. We are constantly losing things and never being able to find them. What's the point of worrying about something you lost? Those keys and that watch may be lost at that time, but they will be found and lost again, that's the cycle this whole thing goes through. Ultimately, it doesn't matter whether you lose something or not; it happens. In line 5, she also talks about the loss of something more abstract: time. When she talks about “the hour misspent”, it makes me think of a waste of time. In most cases, wasting time is a common occurrence. What she wants to tell us is that it is easy to waste time and that it should not be a problem because wasting time is something that is easy to master. This misspent hour can be taken back and reused, so why waste even more time crying over this wasted time. Instead, you could do something more with your time. In line 11 she refers to the three houses she lost...... middle of paper ......ch we see her admitting in lines 18-19. She says "the art of losing isn't too difficult to master, even though it may seem like a disaster (Write it down!), she admits she has to write it down because it's so true." Losing someone is hard and probably the worst loss, which is why she left him until last. Like other losers, we must realize that life goes on and we cannot hold on forever. Sometimes it's better to let go a little so as not to lose more in the end. Losing is hard and sometimes seems like a disaster, but in the end, it's inevitable and it's something we have to accept. It's like a cycle that she shows us throughout her poem, going from the little things to the biggest losses in life. Ultimately, I believe this shows us that we need to face the losses that occur and realize that they are not a disaster. Works Cited Poem Used One Art by Elizabeth Bishop.