One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

 One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

I thought this poem was simpler and easier compared to the others. The in-denial tone that the persona had was actually evident especially as one goes further into the poem. The villanelle apparently has to have the same third line or has to end with the same word. The shift between master and disaster seems like a race then. It seems like a struggle between the persona trying to convince herself that the art of losing isn’t hard to master or if it really is a disaster. I also found the lines closed in parentheses to function as a pause of sorts. In the last stanza the persona seems to be reluctantly accepting the fact that losing is a disaster. Th. The parentheses then serve as pauses that displays a reluctance of the persona to ae poem did end with “disaster” and not “master”ccept the fact that loss is quite difficult. And I agree, loss is something I really fear and something I may never be able to master.