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Comment 43 of 43, added on March 22nd, 2008 at 12:48 PM.
The poem is profound. One can see the reminiscences of life's little losses. However, if one were to loose these things by design, by design to give up, these "losses" can help everybody to conquer material and physical bonds. Developing on this thread, the poem "if" by Rudyard Kipling describes how to give up things without ruminating.
N J Srinivasulu from India
Comment 42 of 43, added on October 18th, 2007 at 9:04 AM.
"one art" is a beautiful poem.i love it because its meaning is so natural and pure.we all lose things or ppl we love in life ...and the worst part is that we cant change it nor can we control how things happen.
and then there comes a point wen weve lost so many times at the hands of life and fate that we get used to the pain.and its a "disaster" no more.it ceases to hurt where it used to bleed.
and so we realise, that the art of losing isnt so hard to master after all.tear!
sania ali from Pakistan
Comment 41 of 43, added on February 5th, 2007 at 3:39 AM.
I disagree wth peoples comments that this poem was nothing until the movie, it just gave a new audience a chance to make their own veiw of it. Does it matter where people find out new things as long as they find them??
The poem to me is one that shows how easy things are to lose, that no matter how much we pretend it doesnt matter. That despite that ease, if we care about it & even if we act like it doesnt, somewhere inside it will always be...a disaster.
Davd J
Comment 40 of 43, added on August 31st, 2006 at 8:39 PM.
this poem is a copy. rent the movie , "in her shoes". u will know what i am talking about.
camilo from United States
Comment 39 of 43, added on June 17th, 2006 at 4:41 PM.
“One Art” is written in the repetitive structure of the villanelle to reinforce the habitual nature of the speaker’s losses. The effective repetitions of the villanelle also supports the perspective of the poem. Bishop reviews, or puts into perspective, a lifetime of losses. Some of the losses are minor - “the lost door keys, the hour badly spent”, the memories. Some of losses are major, like houses, cities and a loved one. In looking back at all these losses, Bishop emphasizes through repetition that none of them, in perspective, amounted to “disaster” -lines 3, 4, 12 and 19. To Bishop the “art of losing” – lines 1, 6, 12 and 17 – is natural for everyone because it is inherent in the nature of things and people that there is an “intent to be lost” – lines 2 and 3. The art of losing then is so natural for humans that it is not a hard one to “master” – lines 1, 6, 12 and 18.
The speaker’s attitude is one of acceptance despite the emotion and time wasted looking for what we have lost. Sometimes we spend so much time looking for lost items like “door keys” we get frustrated and it seems like a disaster at the time.
At the end of the poem Bishop has convinced herself that her repetitive losses can be survived. With their slight but suggestive variations, the repetitive descriptions of loss - and the realization that they are not disasters - become the method by which Bishop’s lesson can be passed through to us as well as to the speaker herself.
The formal structure of the villanelle actually increases the emotional tone of the poem and makes us understand the personal sense of loss that Bishop feels in writing this poem.
Finally, in “One Art” Bishop talks about the need to write about losses, demonstrating an understanding that writing puts these losses into perspective. This way, in recognizing our losses we can come to terms with them and prepare ourselves for the future losses that must naturally come.
Rinda Suparatana from Canada
Comment 38 of 43, added on June 10th, 2006 at 6:54 PM.
It's not just a poem, it's a life story. This is easily noticable when you read through Elizabeth Bishop's biography. I was ignorant of it until today, and now I regret it. It was w sad life she had...
Adam from Poland
Comment 37 of 43, added on May 26th, 2006 at 6:28 PM.
When I last looked at it this website the poem was viewed some 37,000 times. I disagree with the statement "this poem was nothing until almost half the population" saw the movie and read it. This poem has always been and will always be remarkable.
Andrea from Hungary
Comment 36 of 43, added on May 22nd, 2006 at 6:57 PM.
I love this poem, she starts out talking about the keys and then moves on to what could be a lost love. elizabeth truely touches the depths of the human soul, we push everything that hurts or may hurt us away. instead of grieving and recovering we push away our loses and pretend they never existed.
Liz from United States
Comment 35 of 43, added on April 19th, 2006 at 6:05 PM.
I thought the poem touched a bit upon the zen outlook of suffering. An attachment to anything caught in time results in suffering. The "art" would then be to bring yourslf closer to the unifying force or "god". Just an idea however.
Alyson from United States
Comment 34 of 43, added on April 16th, 2006 at 9:51 AM.
When I hear this peom, I feel I am lost, for my friends who are currently on another continent called Asia, and for my famliy, my grandma my litter brother and sister, my parents, I lost them even I've forgotten to call them for such a long time. Well, but I have them there in my heart, I know I love them and they are caring me even every second. That's life, it's always filled with lost and found. losing old stuffs and finding new ones. I lost two years time with them, but i found them've never gone, they are here, in my heart!
kevin from China
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The poem is profound. One can see the reminiscences of life's little losses. However, if one were to loose these things by design, by design to give up, these "losses" can help everybody to conquer material and physical bonds. Developing on this thread, the poem "if" by Rudyard Kipling describes how to give up things without ruminating.
N J Srinivasulu from India