ONE HEART                                                                                                     

Just considering the title the reader may expect the poem to be about a specific type of art, maybe the most important for the poetess.

Taking into consideration the layout the reader can notice that it is a poem because it is arranged in  lines.  There are five stanzas of three lines each, while the last stanza is made of four lines. “the art of losing isn’t hard to master” is a kind of refrain. It opens the poem and there is an incremental repetition in stanzas 2, 4, and 6.

In the first stanza the writer says that it is easy to lose things, especially because many of them seem to ask for it, and it is a big issue, anyway. In the second stanza the poetess imagines to lose something daily, for example your keys. In the third stanza she says to try and lose bigger things and do it more often: cities, names and the places you were supposed to go. Nothing happens if you forget about them. in the next stanza a family object disappeared, and soon after even one of the houses where you used to live. In the fifth stanza the writer used to live in a couple of places in a country she really liked, she had some dear corners where she used to find place. She doesn’t have them anymore, but it is not such a big deal.

The poem itself can be read as a metaphor: “One Art” may suggest that the art of losing and the art of writing poems are one and the same. You refine your ability to lose things, making it in “art”. There are a lot of incremental repetitions and also alliterations just to make the reader easier to remember the poem.

The poetess while writing this poem wanted to convey the message that all the things and the pople around you won’t be with you forever, you’ll be alone and you won’t remember about anything.