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Read the poem below by the poet Elizabeth Bishop: ONE ART 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 disast
Interpretação de Textos (Understanding)
Instituto AOCP · 2025
Read the poem below by the poet Elizabeth Bishop:
ONE ART
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.
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.
Source: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/oneart
In the poem, the persona
- reflects on loss and grief.
- describes her family and friends.
- focuses on the future ahead.
- is careless and clumsy.
- describes her memory loss.
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A persona do poema One Art promove uma reflexão sobre perda e luto. Ela enumera perdas que vão de objetos triviais a cidades e pessoas amadas, mostrando que o tema central é a experiência emocional de perder e a tentativa de compreendê‑la.
A repetição de "The art of losing isn’t hard to master" funciona como um recurso de repetição e mantra, usado para racionalizar a dor e afirmar uma postura de domínio sobre a perda.
A sequência dos itens perdidos cria uma escalada: pequenas perdas, bens caros, territórios e, por fim, um relacionamento íntimo. Esse aumento revela que a dor se intensifica apesar da negação verbal.
No verso final, a insistência em não chamar a perda de desastre se rompe com a intervenção "Write it!", revelando uma confissão e uma ironia que confirmam o luto real por trás da tentativa de controle.
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