Can a person be called a failure because they accept something beyond their control? Perhaps that something may be accepting defeat. For example, I accepted that I would never comprehend Algebra II well enough to receive a passing grade. In the poem "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop, the voice also accepts lost things." "One Art" is a villanelle, one of Elizabeth Bishop's rare excursions into a complex, pre-existent verse pattern....Perhaps-without the fiction of a character like Crusoe, who experiences similar losses-the framework of a formal pattern was a necessary structure for the use of so many personal details." My own life and the poem both illustrates the acceptance of things that a person has control of, and how gracefully you accept the things that you have no control of.
             I took Geometry for the first time my tenth grade year of high school. I had a hard time trying to pass the class, but eventually I passed with a C. The next year I took Algebra 2 and it was the hardest year of math for me. When taking Algebra II,I had a hard time all year and I did not pass. Therefore, I took the class in summer school. Unfortunately, I still did not pass Algebra 2. During my senior year of high school, I took the class again. I thought that this time I would do a lot better, since I had taken the class two times before. I started off very well. I passed the first semester with a C average, and I felt a lot better about things.
             I went into the second semester a little too relaxed and I made an F all three six weeks. When it was time to average my grades for the whole year, my grade in Algebra II averaged out to another F. Although, I still had more than enough credits to graduate with honors, I still wanted to pass the class in summer school so that I would not have to take remedial math in college. I went to summer school and took the same subject again. I started off with a B average t...