The poem “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop is a very touching poem. In this 14 lined villanelle she describes the art of losing. She explains all that she has lost and the objects get more meaningful as the poem progresses. She writes relatable things for example, keys, hours badly spent, and names. The poem becomes more personal when she suffers the loss of things like her mother’s watch, places she loved and then people she loved. When the author says,“Then practice losing farther, losing faster”(line 7) you can tell that the objects are going to getting more sentimental and harder to lose. The poem ends with her greatest regret, losing someone she loved. The element that interests me in this poem is how understandable the feelings that she