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Elizabeth Bishop, in her poem "One Art," explores the losses she has suffered throughout her life in order to emphasize the importance of letting go and moving on.

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Both The Yellow Wallpaper and One Art have to do with loss. In One Art, the main character loses everything important to her. In The Yellow Wallpaper, the main character loses her sanity. Both characters also suffer damage to their personal relationships, with the character in One Art losing the person she loves and the character in The Yellow Wallpaper losing her trust in her husband.

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The author uses her mother's watch to symbolize her mother. Losing the watch can mean that her mother passed away, or "ran out of time."

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Rhyme is also used as a lit device. There is one rhyme used in the poem in the form of "master," "disaster," "vaster," and "faster." This shows how no matter the issue, a person can always triumph over difficulty. The problem is always tied to the ability to solve it.

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The author uses repetition by repeating the two phrases "the art of losing isn't hard to master" and variations on "not a disaster." This lit devices reinforces the idea that losing things isn't necessarily a bad thing and that you have to learn to let go.