Poem Analysis: 'The Art Of Losing One Art'

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Makayla Preston
Ms.Watson
AP English IV
10, October. 2017 Rough draft

The theme of the poem “ One Art”, is that everything isn’t external that ‘the art of losing” something is that we should be familiar with. As she kept repeating the phrase “ The art of losing something isn’t hard to mastered”, in the phrase she was mentioning that we’re bound to lose something one day and it’s nothing to be emotional about because that’s how everything is. Right here Bishop made it seen like she was creating a sort of dance with words that influence the reader's mind on the things she lost were faithful approach and she accepted the lost of this possession. She didn’t felt the need to sad over

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