frames each of them as an art, the art of losing, and learning to lose. Regret Regret, more than remorse, is the general attitude and tone of this poem as Bishop recounts, or reminisces about her losses. Regret is naturally an antagonist to learning and growing from experiences of failure, and it behaves similarly to the experiences Bishop mentions here. The line "I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster," speaks strongly to this theme. Travel Traveling was a staple of importance to Bishop, and it inspired much of her writing before "One Art". Therefore, she promotes traveling in "One Art", even though it is a source of loss. She uses traveling as a theme here to promote a sense of carpe diem, seize the day, which relates back to repeated notions that everything is bound, or intended, to be lost that one should not shy away from anything for fear of losing it; losing it is not a disaster. Reception The poem was well received at the time of its publication by peers and fellow poets. In the next few years, Bishop would be awarded the Books Abroad / Neustadt International Prize in 1976, National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977, was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1976 for her past works and specifically her book, Geography III]. Brett Miller wrote that "One Art" "may be the best modern example of a villanelle..." along with Theodore Roethke's "The Waking". References External links One Art at Poetry Foundation 1976 poems American poems