Nicole Murawski Illuminates "One Art"

One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
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. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. Elizabeth Bishop The art of losing isn't hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster. I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn't hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. —Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.    In Elizabeth Bishop's poem "One Art", I think she was trying to express that, sometimes you think something is important to you until you forget it. She's trying to show that a lot of things that most people think about seem important but really when you forget it doesn't make a difference of how much it mean't to you before. She is also saying how easy it is to forget something and once you do sometimes it can hurt you.