What Is The Speaker's Attitude To Loss In One Art '?

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
In One Art, the speaker’s attitude toward loss in lines 16-19 is related to her attitude toward loss in lines 1-15 because she develops the idea that losses are not hard to bear throughout her poem. The verse form helps readers understand these attitudes because she starts mentioning small losses and escalates to losses of greater magnitude. In stanza 1 she states, “so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster” ( lines 2-3). The speaker attempts to persuade the readers that losing is not so hard because there are things that are meant to be lost. Therefore, losing is not a “disaster” because it is only a natural process. In stanza 2 she tells the readers to “lose something everyday. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour
The speaker mentions examples of small losses such as losing door keys to further convince the reader that losing is not so tragedious as many people think. Even though you would be agitated by the lost of your keys, you would be able to get over it and continue living. In addition to losing the keys, you lost an hour that you will never get back. She advises the readers to “lose something everyday” because as they lose thing things they will get used to losing things, hence the art of losing is not so hard to master. However, in stanza 3 she tells the readers to lose even “places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel” (lines 7-9). She advances the losses to abstract ideas that are part of an individual’s identity and the losses of such things would alter their identity. Regardless, she still believes that these