Monday, January 28, 2013
"My Ex-Husband"
The Poem "My Ex-Husband" tells the story of a heart broken women, possible widow, through her conversations with another person, who is not her Ex-Husband. The poems Paradox is the Narrators simultaneous love and hate for her Ex-Husband. Throughout the poem, she speaks of the shame, waste, and snobbishness her ex-husband resembles to her, while drifting in and out of his so called "certain charm". The poem ask's "who'd lower herself to put up with shit like that" showing some of the irony this paradox has to offer. The narrator resolves this paradox in lines 34-37, where the poems shows the reader that her love for her ex-husband is still strong but she refuses to be "stuck" with the short end of the stick.
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I really liked how you addressed the line where the woman asks "who'd lower herself to put up with shit like that?". I agree that his adds to the irony of the piece, because she did that exactly. She put up with, and is still in love with the man that cheated on her. This irony also provides some resolution to the central paradox of the story: The speaker is both simultaneously disgusted by and infatuated with her ex-husband. Through her description of her husband and his "affairs", the speaker exposes to the reader that she still has feelings for this man and is clearly unable to let go of her past relationship, ultimately resolving the paradox.
ReplyDeleteYou brought up some pretty good points, and I agree. However, I was not quite sure if you were doing question 1 or 2. If you were leaning more torwards 1, I would recommend you focus a little more on some other meaningful diction that's not too obvious. Good job overall though.
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