is reflected in many of the poems of Geography III. "One Art" is narrated by a speaker who details losing small items, which gradually become more significant, moving from the misplacement of "door keys" to the loss of "two cities" where the speaker presumably lived, for example. The first stanza provides the poem's thesis; we are all going to lose things and get much better at it as we do. Find the silver lining in that, it is not a disaster. The word "intent" gives agency to powers that be, and the "so many things" which are going to be lost. The second stanza sums it up with the "practice makes perfect" theme, giving examples of every day, lifelong, broad, and shallow losses. These examples communicate that not only does everyone lose things, but everyone loses things all the time. The third stanza begins the chronicle of Elizabeth's losses in life, spiraling "farther" and "faster" towards the final stanza. "Places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel" represent the theme of regret in this poem. The fourth stanza is a unique moment for Bishop, where she uses "my" and speaks of specific and personal experiences that have taught her a lesson. The mother she speaks of here was estranged to Bishop at age five when she was permanently institutionalized, this "watch" may simply represent a keepsake she held which meant nothing to her, as she did not feel a strong connection with her mother. She was meant to write a critical response to Sylvia Plath's letters to her mother in 1975 but being unable to relate to the mother-daughter relationship Plath expresses, Bishop did not go further with her criticism of these, which she felt were superficial. The houses she has lost are from her childhood from moving around a lot and her relationship with Methfessel; the two were connected by their travels and the time they spent living together in paradises. Specifying her "next-to-last" house to indicate that her life is not over yet, this is significant because of her mental health and suicidal tendencies at this point in her life. The fifth stanza, and final tercet, relates back to the strong themes of traveling from her book, Geography III. A difference between the houses in the previous stanza, these cities, realms, rivers, and continents are a grander, "vaster" spectacle of her loss. Scholars have discovered