When the second stanza ends with the first line of the poem, emphasizing the central proposition of the poem, the reasonableness of that proposition remains intact. Stanza 3 adds distance and speed to the loss equation. Bishop's gradual repetition of line 3 – "None of these will bring disaster" – still does not seem entirely unreasonable, although the shock of the suddenly personal "you" in line 8 suggests that the most trying examples are yet to come. the poem is written explicitly in the first person, with Bishop suddenly asserting his own investment in the correctness of line1's proposition. The previous two stanzas were misleading, we discover. Rather than being written by a third party, lines 4 to 9 showed the poet timidly dipping her toe into the murky waters of the subject; From the fourth stanza onwards, Bishop immerses himself – and becomes involved – more fully, conjuring up objects and ideas of increased personal value. Lines 10 and 11 draw attention to another distinction in the art of losing: I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or penultimate, of three beloved houses has disappeared. The “look” of line 10 exposes the growing complexity of Bishop’s.