Answer to Question #285926 in English for Sabelo Xulu

Question

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.

You can use an example from a poem only once

1. Refer to stanzas one and two.

1.1. To what does the ‘art’ in the poem’s title and first stanza refer?

Answer 1

Art is the poem is found in line 1.1. The title combines loss, how to cope with the loss, and how to express the experience. Art here generally can show the strategy of accepting loss and moving on