Loss In The Poem 'One Art' By Elizabeth Bishop

Loss is a irreversible damage, in cases of lost loved ones, it attains a power unlike any other, to both push and hold in individual in fear. In the poem “One Art”, by Elizabeth Bishop, the speaker’s attitude towards loss shows how it can be a conflicting hindrance, by her use of understatement, repetition, punctuation, comparison, and diction; to illustrate how the attempt to underscore loss is inhibited by the truth of its consequential grief. The speaker’s meaning of loss constructs her hopeless approach to resolving loss. The speaker describes a misplacement as being a inhibition part of a daily life that every individual needs to learn to get over. This lack of resolve as described by her diction with the phrase: “art of losing”, embellishes the sense despondence as an inevitable outcome. Further exploring the

To “ practice losing farther, losing faster” is the key to acquiring this happy medium of overcoming loss. Her use of repetition emphasizes the fact that her meaning of loss is accompanied by a veil of hopelessness, a veil of inevitability, a veil masking the individual’s true feelings for loss. That she means to hide the truth by underscoring the fact that loss means more than it appears to her. Ultimately her desperation illuminates the fact that the fear of the consequential grieving and sorrow is more present than the fear of losing. The speaker’s underscoring of loss incorporates the ideal that loss, seen through the hopeless eye, is nothing. This is presented through multiple understatements throughout the poem, emphasizing her desperation to mask the presence of concern. She compares the disappearance of her “mother’s watch” to the misplacement of “three loved houses”, to underscore the compounding effect that loss has placed unto her. The loss of a meaningful