Sorting Laundry
Elisavietta Ritchie
The poems within this unit seem to have this common technique of an extended metaphor. In this poem, sorting laundry is a metaphor for the speaker's relationship with her lover. The many images throughout the poem depict a healthy relationship between the two. For example, the image of the pockets containing random little treasures show that the relationship between the couple grows as they discover more about each other. The image of the wrinkles represent the flaws of the relationship. However, these flaws are worked out or able to be ignores showing the healthy relationship. Then a major shift in tone occurs at line 42, when she fins "the strangely tailored shirt left by a former lover"(842). The idea of another lover brings about the thought of what life would be like without her lover. The "mountain of unsorted wash could not fill the empty side of the bed" shows that her life would be emptier without her lover. This also displays the speakers stance that she would not be the same or enjoy their relationship ending.
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