The line of the first stanza is enough to guide us all. The people find it hard to survive after losing their loved ones. Their precious belongings with their memories leave them in chaos. But I find this very opening to be a message of practicing losing in our daily life. We lose our belongings like clothes, accessories, and things daily. Do we lose heart too with them? No! We learn to live by the fact that they are daily usage stuff which can be lost any moment sooner or later in the life. But we do lose our heart when someone betrays us or leaves us in the life. The loss is so permanent in life that it engulfs our whole being out of us and turn us into “Living dead” instead of humans. It is the end of our world and we think ourselves to be responsible for such losses. Elizabeth promotes the idea of practicing the losing on daily basis in the next stanzas to master it:

"Lose something every day. To 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 mean,

To travel. None of these will bring disaster."

This has to be the key in life to practice losing more and more. It leads us to the point that the losses do not break us apart. Finally leading us to master losing the dear and near ones as well.