“One Art” was written by the American poet Elizabeth

Bishop. The poem is a villanelle, a traditional form that

involves a fixed number of lines and stanzas and an
intricate pattern of repetition and rhyme. Through this
form, the poem explores loss as an inevitable part of life.
The speaker considers what it means to experience loss
over and over again, and whether it is truly possible to
“master” the experience of loss and grief.