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What Is The Speaker's Attitude To Loss In Once Art

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In “Once Art by Elizabeth Bishop the speaker's attitude towards loss in lines 1-15 is unaffectionate while her attitude towards loss in lines 16-19 are more caring. She uses personification and symbolism to show how emotional it is to loose someone you love because people take their loved ones for granted. In lines 1-15 it can be seen that the speaker thinks that losing things isn’t a big deal from the first line, “The art of losing isn’t hard to master” (Bishop 1). She’s saying that it’s easy to lose things, so it should be the norm. She loses common things like keys and she’s not bothered by it. This ties into the idea that people take their loved ones for granted because sometimes if the loved one is there all of the time, it becomes easy to unintentional mistreat them and then it becomes a regular activity and the person is unaware of their behavior. …show more content…

The person didn’t use their valuable assets to open doors that would have lead to success. Instead, they wasted that time which is evident when the speaker says, “The hours badly spent” (Bishop 5). This relates to people taking their loved ones for granted because people will not spend time with the ones they love because they think that they’ll always have time with them. They’ll put off bonding with that person and the excuse will be because they’ll just do it next time. They’ll go visit another day. They can always reschedule. Then they’re upset at themselves if something happens, the same way the speaker is upset with they lose their keys, because they realize that they should have taken advantage of the time they could have spent with that person when they were still in their

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