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Did you guys see the film In Her Shoes (設身處地/偷穿高跟鞋)?
Personally I think the the movie is okay, but the novel is brilliant. (No, I haven’t finished the whole novel yet. I will in the summer.)

”One Art” is the first poem that appears in the film. The nineteen lines of the poem was a formal pattern. Maybe the more famous poem of this pattern, villanelle (a fixed form originated by French courtly poets of the Middle Ages), is Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.”

If you like Emily Dickinson, you will surely like Elizabeth Bishop.

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One Art
By Elizabeth Bishop (1911—1979)

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

---Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.