One Art

The poem One Art by Elizabeth Bishop shows many aspects and creates different perspectives on loss. It can make you wonder whether loss might be something more than what it seems and that a loss of something small can, in reality, symbolize something much greater. The losses in the poem for this case go past the speaker's feelings and also applies to the author. One Art by Elizabeth Bishop is a good portrayal of how an author's life can influence their writing or work by parts like personal experiences, emotions and other poets.
Throughout the poem a lot of Bishop’s personal experiences reflect on her work. She writes a lot in this poem about losing objects and places like houses, cities, rivers, a continent and even names. Bishop found herself at a young age traveling to different places because her parents were not in her life for long and she had to go live with her grandparents. She lived in Nova Scotia, Canada then moved to Massachusetts. She went to Walnut Hills School for Girls and to Vassar College where she met Marianne Moore a dear friend and poet who also had some impact on Bishop’s poetry. She traveled many places after college as well, to places like New York, France, Spain, Ireland, Italy, North Africa and Brazil. In some of her poems descriptions of these places add flavor to every stanza or line.
In the poem Bishop repeats the line “The art of losing isn't hard to master.” When we look at her personal life you find that Bishop has experienced multiple sudden changes in her life and has had to deal with loss on numerous occasions. We see things like how her father only died when she was a year old. Not soon after her mother was found suffering with mental stability and was sent to an institution and she never saw her mother again. These changes in her life are tremendously reflected in this poem. It is noticed that throughout the poem Bishop slowly reveals more about her personal