Theme: In all poems there is a person reflecting on their life or events that have happened in their life
Ash
quote "House of lies
And pride and bone."
quote "House infested
With desire."
Analysis: A house is much more than just a house. When someone lives there the house takes on characteristics of the people who lived there.
The Woman Hanging From the Thirteenth Floor window
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quote "She thinks of Carlos, of Margaret, of Jimmy.
She thinks of her father, and of her mother".
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analysis A women is on the verge of suicide. She looks back and reflects on many moments of her life as being a kid as well as having kids. She hears many different voices including her grandma's before ultimately deciding to jump or climb back up.
Mirror
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quote "A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is."
analysis The mirror is describing a woman's fear of growing older and older each day as she sees herself in the mirror
My Papa's Waltz
quote "My mother’s countenance
Could not unfrown itself."
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Analysis: A young boy fears his father and is dancing with him while he is drunk. This describes their relationship
The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
When she was young she ate wild rice on scraped down
plates in warm wood rooms. It was in the farther
north and she was the baby then. They rocked her.