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Analyzing a Housewife's Struggles

This document provides an analysis of a poem through explicating its four stanzas. The first stanza introduces the subject as a housewife who helps around the store and picks up her kids from school. The second stanza explores her desire to find her own identity beyond just being a mother and wife. The third stanza depicts her as generally sweet but occasionally moody, with some drinking to cope with stress. The fourth stanza has her injuring herself by accident while doing dishes after money troubles prevented going out. The document examines the poem through close reading and interpretation of its figurative language and themes.

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Analyzing a Housewife's Struggles

This document provides an analysis of a poem through explicating its four stanzas. The first stanza introduces the subject as a housewife who helps around the store and picks up her kids from school. The second stanza explores her desire to find her own identity beyond just being a mother and wife. The third stanza depicts her as generally sweet but occasionally moody, with some drinking to cope with stress. The fourth stanza has her injuring herself by accident while doing dishes after money troubles prevented going out. The document examines the poem through close reading and interpretation of its figurative language and themes.

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EXPLICATION

FIGURE OF SPEECH PRESENT

EXEGESIS

1st Stanza ( EXPLANATION)

She's a great little housewife

Though sometimes she talks like a fool

But she helps at the store in the holiday rush

And she picks up the kids after school

And she puts down the phone

When her husband comes home

And she changes from mother to wife

'Til she feels the words hanging between them

And she hangs by her words to her life”

2nd Stanza Explanation

“She says I swear I love my husband,

I love my kids

I wanted to be like my mother

But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did

Oh there might have been time to be me

For myself, for myself

There's so many things that she wishes


She don't even know what she's missin'

And that's how she knows that she missed”

3rd Stanza Explantion

“She's a sweetheart, except when she's moody

It's hard to get through to her then

Depressed for a while

When the youngest was born

Oh but that happens now and again

She might take a drink with the housework

Or when Michael's kept late at the shop

A Martini or two before dinner

But she always knows when to stop”

4th Stanza explanation

“Now it's seldom if ever they go

Once you've paid for the sitter

And parkin' the car

There's no money left for the show

She was doing the dishes

When a glass fell and broke on the tile

And she cut her wrist (quite by mistake)

It was real touch and go for a while”


Semiotic

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