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In the poem "One Art", Elizabeth Bishop writes about many things that she has lost and the way she coped with them. At first she tries to convince the reader that the art of losing is not too har to master and that their loss is no disaster, but in the end she admits that although it is not that difficult to loss some things, their lose can be dredful. In the beginning of the …

…a disaster". She had many loses, but none of those loses came close to being asss painful as losing her love. The poet loses many things and learns to live with it. She loses things that are important to her, but tries to deny and hide her pain. When she lost her love, it was hard for her to deal with it and it seems as though she really misses him and is falling apart.