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2006-12-13 05:25:50 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Higher Education (University +)

SORTING LAUNDRY
Folding clothes,
I think of folding you
into my life.

Our king-sized sheets
like table cloths
for the banquets of giants,

pillow cases, despite so many
washings seams still
holding our dreams.

Towels patterned orange and green,
flowered pink and lavender,
gaudy, bought on sale,

reserved, we said, for the beach,
refusing, even after years,
to bleach into respectability.

So many shirts and skirts and pants
recycling week after week, head over heels
recapitulating themselves.

All those wrinkles
to be smoothed, or else
ignored, they're in style.

Myriad uncoupled socks
which went paired into the foam
like those creatures in the ark.

And what's shrunk
is tough to discard
even for Goodwill.

In pockets, surprises:
forgotten matches,
lost screws clinking on enamel;

paper clips, whatever they held
between shiny jaws, now
dissolved or clogging the drain;

well-washed dollars, legal tender
for all debts public and private,

2006-12-13 05:37:35 · update #1

3 answers

It would be a lot easier to help you if you had given us the poem. I don't know this poem so how can I identify the metaphors?

Folding clothes is like trying to integrate someone into her life neatly, so that he "fits" her lifestyle.

The sheets on their bed represent life together, a home together. The fact they are like "tablecloths" for the banquets of giants mean that their intimacy and love are a feast that sustains them spirituallly.

Pillowcases that don't wear out after many washings represent the strength of their connection to each other and their life together being the place where they will find fulfillment.

The brightly colored, gaudy towels represent the young, offbeat, original personalities of the two lovers that brought them together. The fact that they found each other and celebrate each other's brash, colorful natures will keep them young and original instead of "fading into respectability."

2006-12-13 05:33:13 · answer #1 · answered by braennvin2 5 · 0 0

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Oh I don't know....Perhaps he's confined to a room without, windows or a door, has a wand and the capability to use magic but, is unable to apperate, from this solitary confinement. In the room there is nothing, other then a desk, a very curious black rotative chair with 5 miniature wheels, and a flat rectangular object, that's roughly the size of a book. Which he later finds out is, referred to as a "lap top computer". This lap top would prove to be his only line to any sort of outside world. In this case one where his life's exploits are believed to be mere, fictional events in some, ridiculously pro-muggle novel about the world he knows. So he's forced to listen to countless muggles, constantly mocking his name. Enduring such patronizings nick names as "Voldy" "Voldy-poo" "Voldykins" and "TOM" Perhaps the same thing has happened to Bellatrix......I highly doubt all this however. :P Actually I've thought about this before and, based on what I've read in the "Deathly Hallows" I can only come up with one conclusion. He suffered his worse nightmare, total and utter oblivion. The only thing that would remain, is his decomposing body, until it's dust and he's truly nothing. I'm not sure how heaven or hell works in the HP world. But the fact that Rowling sort of hinted that Grindlewald's remorse and acceptance of death, in the latter part of his life, was preferable to Voldemort's reluctance to accept, ever having to die. Makes me think that, maybe even the worse of criminals have, a chance of redemption, but Voldemort crushed, any glimmer of hope for his soul by entirely destroying it. For some reason I think non-existence in scarier for him then any hell, that can be imagined. Because then you're truly nothing, what was once you is now maggot poo, nothing more nothing less. You once said that, you loved playing Bellatrix on Y!A, because you get to have all the fun, of being Bella without having to suffer as much as the "real" one. I can say the same thing about being Lord Voldemort! :P

2016-04-09 09:21:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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