"The Moose" emphasizes the stream of consciousness that humans have. We oftentimes lose touch with nature when we take emotional trips on our daily lives. It seems as though the people are surrounded by nature but are too distracted to notice it: "on red, gravelly roads, down rows of sugar maples, past clapboard churches, bleached, ridged as clamshells, past twin silver birches" (69). In addition, the stream of consciousness, there are an abundance of random life experiences such as mundane activity like setting tables to hardships in sea ports. I feel as though the people get lost in their thoughts pondering about life and death: "Grandparents' voices uninterruptedly talking, in Eternity" (71). In the back of the bus, the people converse which keep their mind running: "Talking the way they talked in the old featherbed, peacefully, on and on" (71). The only thing that stopped their flow of conversation was the moose, where the symbolic…show more content… The poem begins with the little, daily losses such as keys then it progresses into deeper losses such as leaving home, a family member, and unrequited love. In the end, Bishop has an increasingly harder time accepting loss. There is a progression where she is sure that the art of losing is not a disaster to it may seem like a disaster. The repetition of "the art of losing isn't hard to master" means that acceptance is not hard to do, and you just need to accept losses and move on. The last line including the words "write it!" appears as though she is commanding her audience to write their story—their future—and not hold onto the past. Perhaps, she is holding on to the past and her love for a man and this poem is her outlet to accepting losing him. I believe that the poem is aimed at those who regret things in their past. While we are humans and we lose things, there is not anything we can do to reverse our decisions. Only focusing on the future will allow us to become
