The concept of loss is a notable theme in poetry, whether it is love, beauty or even life, many poets tend to make it. This theme is illuminated by Elizabeth Bishop, a distinguished 20th-century American poet, who, unlike other poets of her time, did not usually write personal details of her life in her poems. However the poem One Art can undoubtedly be contradictory to this fact; as Bishop expressed the emotions of losing her dear friend in the speaker's voice throughout the poem. One Art is a poem about inevitable loss and the unawareness of the difficulty of acceptance. In the first few stanzas the poet creates the impression that she accepts the loss of objects as something so trivial and extremely small that it does not turn her life upside down, but as the poem continues her emotions leak out and the readers are able to witness her true feelings like the thing. what she loses acquires a greater value for her. The poem speaks to the speaker's idea that losing things in life is an art and that it is not difficult to master such an art because everything "is filled with the intent to lose itself." :2) This short quote can have two meanings; on the surface it may mean that the objects he is talking about are so small that losing them is inevitable, such as keys and minutes spent in frivolous activities. However, as shown in the final stanza, this poem is truly about the loss of someone dear to her and the poet is trying to portray the fragility of a life, as it is created with the intent of losing oneself (death is inevitable and everyone must succumb to it). The speaker articulates the tension between one's need to control specific life events and the difficulty of the reality of the act...... middle of paper......y ties together the notion of inevitability and disaster. Impending or impending loss represents the focus of the poem, as the speaker explained, it is in the nature of most things to lose, whether it is something unimportant to us or something we love deeply. No matter how you feel about something, imminent loss is always around the corner. Even something as intangible as our memory and the hours spent in a day are subject to being lost. We forget names, places, and the time we spend doing mundane activities that very often don't impact our lives enough to remember. Whether we choose to accept the pain of losing something or dismiss it as something trivial, the important fact that should be taken away this poem states that loss is inevitable and very often always tends to correlate with the feeling of disaster.