Lovely Literature

This poem has some awesome imagery in it and it's very easy to make a mental movie in your head while reading it. Plus, the fact that it is a more recent poem [at least after 1947] makes it more relatable at times too. The woman in this poem is somewhat pining but more reminiscing on the old days with her ex-husband. They were "...waking like inmates/who beat the walls. Every night," that they were together the last year before their divorce. They sound like the kind of couple that gets on each others' nerves so often but it's worse when they are apart. "Bad when we're together, worse when we're apart" type situation that I'm seeing here. The fact that they still keep in touch means there are feelings of some sort that still linger. I know that if I ever got a divorce, I feel as if I would keep my distance as much as possible unless there were still lingering feelings.

The "unshredded pictures" that are spoken of give off the image that once they divorced the woman went kind of crazy and threw her ex's stuff away and damaged it. Typical girl response...not gonna lie...burning all the pictures and giving everything away. Hey, sometimes you just have to do away with the painful things. BUT she still kept some of the pictures unharmed. I don't think it's healthy to completely forget things that happen in your life, especially the bad because they tend to make you a better person and you learn more lessons from them. This is another of my favorite poems this quarter.