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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Themes

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1. One Art, Elizabeth Bishop(1202). Facing it, Yusef Komunyakaa (1355). Loss is intertwined in our everything and sticks with us through the sands of time. But accepting loss for what it is and “facing it”(Komunyakaa 1355) is the first step in a gradual recovery, if there is one. Bishop and Komunyakaa, both, emotionally illustrate the vulnerability left behind by loss and while neither of the two offers a clear solution, they show us that loss is part of being human. We obviously can not just embrace it but acknowledging loss is fundamental to the healing process. Bishop tells us that loss is easy(dealing with it is the hard part), “so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost”(1202 2) and it should be no surprise when we loss things, …show more content…

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