My Ex-Husband #1 blog post

In the poem "My Ex-Husband" by Gabriel Spera the readers are introduced to a woman's view of her now ex-husband. She tells the readers about the wrongs he had done to her and the way he could get away with it seemingly unnoticed. She says "He seems like any woman's perfect catch, what with his ruddy cheeks, the neat mustache, those close-set, piercing eyes, that tilted grin. But snapshots don't show what's beneath the skin!", this could mean that even though he may seem like the most attractive male he has things about his person that are also unattractive, such as personality. When she states "He'd a certain charm, charisma, style, that passionate earnest glance he struck, meanwhile whispering sweetest things......could flush the throat of any woman, not just mine", it gives you a sense that he has not been truly faithful in the past. The irony that he puts off a front that can make any woman take a second glance but the writer knows what he truly is like underneath his ideal appearance. She goes on to tell us about other instances where he has showed a sense of disloyal behavior, such as "he flirted somehow a bit too ardently, too blatantly, as if, if someone ever noticed, no one cared how slobbishly he carried on affairs." The tone in the beginning of the poem seems calm and balanced but as she goes on to tell about her husbands affairs she seems to get more direct and angry. At the end her tone seems to flow into a more smirky like appearance when she talks about her champagne flutes. To show she is better off without her ex-husband and his untrue ways.