Losing is the main subject of the poem “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop, and Bishop makes the point of just how easy and common it is to lose in life. In lines 1-15, Bishop focuses mainly on the things that will not emotionally or physically damage us in life- mainly material things. The poem starts off talking about some things we lose so easily, that they seem to be things that are made to lose. She says right off, “The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.” She names some of these things like “Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.” When she says accept the fluster, she is basically telling us to accept the fact that we are going to lose
