The art of losing

End rhyme in one art

• 1st stanza "master and disater"
• 3rd stanza "faster and disaster"
• 5th stanza "vaster and disaster"
• She uses end rhyme to say that after a 
• while it can look like a disaster.

alliteration in one art

• 3rd stanza 1st sentence "losing farther, losing faster"
• She uses alliteration that losing keeps happening, and it continues it  
•   helps emphasize the end meaning that after a while it can look like a
• disaster.

hyperbole in one art

• 5th stanza "I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some 
• realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them."
• She uses hyperbole to help show that that losing keeps happening
• and that it keeps getting worse.

REPETITION in one art

• 5th stanza "I lost or miss" in the beginning of  
• the 1st and 3rd sentence 
• This helps show that it can be bad when it starts continuing
• to happen and that it gets even worse over time.

end REPETITION

• End of 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 6th stanzas all have "end
• repetition with disastser"
• She uses end repetition to help show that its not a disaster until it keeps
• over and over again.

restating 1st stanza

• Losing isn't hard to master and that 
• there is no disatster
• "so many things seem filled with intent to be lost that
•  their is no disaster." She is saying that losing a few things
• won't be the end of the world.

restating 2nd stanza

• She is saying that she loses something everyday
• and that it wastes the time 
• and that losing isn't hard to master.

restating 3rd stanza

• She is losing things and she is saying that
• it is ok.

restating 4th stanza

• She lost a watch and 3 houses 
• and that it isn't hard to master "I lost
•   my mothers watch. And look! my last or next to last of 
•  three loved houses went." She is saying that losing isn't  bad every once 
•   and a while but, it keeps getting worse over time if it continues.

restating 5th stanza

• She lost 2 cities, 2 rivers, and a continent but she is saying it won't 
• a disaster and she is saying she can continue her life. "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." She is saying that it is still ok and that it's not  
•  a disaster but if keeps happening that it will be a disaster.

restating 6th stanza

• Losing isn't hard to master but its can look like a disastaer.
• "It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may  
•  look like, like disaster."
• She is saying tat losing isn't hard to do and that it can look like
• a disaster if it keeps happening even though it's ok a few times.

metaphorical meaning

• I think the metaphorical meaning of this poem 
• is that losing is sometimes fine but after it happening alot
• it looks terrible.