One Art

Taking the title into consideration, I expect the poem may be about an art, intended as the ability to do something. At first sight, the poem appears arranged into six stanzas, of three lines each, except the last one that has four: probably it will be more important than the others and will contain the main meaning of the poem. In this poem many repetitions are evident as "the art of losing is not to master" and "disaster" to make clear the message of the poem. The use of an everyday language is linked to the meaning of the poem: losing is something that happens continuously in everyday life. There are enjambements (intent-to, fluster-of, meant-to, ..) that have the purpose of speeding up the rhythm, rhymes (master-disaster, fluster-master, ..) that are to link words that are connected. The follows a climax: at first there are lost places, cities and names, then the clock of his mother and the houses in which he lived and, finally, the person he loved. The poet tells us her life experience through this poem and invites us to reflect on the fact that learning to lose is not difficult if you can understand that the defeats are not disasters and that, from defeats, we must learn.