News at Eleven: However, her [Elizabeth Bishop's] initial yoking

of keys and time quite unnerves readers early on in the poem. She links an object to an abstract notion in the same line of poetry and separates them only by a comma as she advises readers to "Accept the fluster/of lost door keys, the hour badly spent" (3-4). By connecting such unlike things, Bishop obliquely suggests that her losses far exceed the mere loss of keys or time; indeed, her profound suffering prevents her from discerning the difference between a lost item, potentially recoverable, and lost time, never recoverable.

from Student Pulse: Losing and Writing: Synonymous Art Forms for Poet Elizabeth Bishop

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