Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry takes a more personal route of writing. She exposes herself in many of her poems and all the different emotions that are occurring throughout her life. In Bishop’s poem “One Art,” she writes of losing. Bishop says, “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.” (lines 1-3) in these first few lines Bishop does not seem to be distraught over losing things, in fact she almost seems to find humor in loss. Then the poem takes a turn from humor to fear. Bishop writes of loss in a different sense in the next stanza, “Then practice losing farther, losing faster;/ places, and names, and where it was you meant/ to travel. None of these will bring disaster.” (lines 7-9). Bishop increases the intensity of loss and the impact it can make upon a person, she then states “none of these will bring disaster.” (line 9) The last line of stanza two seems to be the calming factor of loss. She realizes that one’s memory will go, but it will not be the undoing of them just yet, it will not be a disaster unless you let it become one.