The speaker is an older widower for whom there is a vacuum meaning both the absence of matter as well as the appliance where his wife once was.
The vacuum poem shmoop.
Howard nemerov was a highly acclaimed poet often cited for the range of his capabilities and subject matter from the profound to the poignant to the comic james billington remarked in his announcement of nemerov s appointment to the post of united states poet laureate.
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Tickham is reading poetry one afternoon when her husband comes in and gives her a birthday gift.
He couldn t think of anything but her.
Howard nemerov s the vacuum is structured around a central pun that of the vacuum.
But it s not just any vacuum cleaner.
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However howard nemerov attempted the trying task and created the poem the vacuum in 1955.
The fact that the poem is entitled the vacuum and not the vacuum.
It s the ulysses 2000x.
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I ve lived this way long enough but when my old woman died her soul went into that vacuum cleaner and i can t bear to see the bag swell like a belly eating the dust.
But he doesn t want us to think that living 2 400 years in a day has given him long life.
I ve lived this way long enough but when my old woman died her soul went into that vacuum cleaner and i can t bear to see the bag swell like a belly eating the dust and the woollen mice and begin.
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The next thousand years were just a big vacuum of forgetfulness.
The vacuum the house is so quiet now the vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet its bag limp as a stopped lung its mouth grinning into the floor maybe at my slovenly life my dog dead youth.
This poem explained death in a way that all of us endeavor to.
It s a vacuum cleaner.
With a title like flora and ulysses you wouldn t be blamed for thinking the story was about well people named flora and ulysses and as it turns out that s exactly what the story is about aside from the fact that ulysses just so happens to be a squirrel the title clues us in to the fact that these two share the spotlight in the book setting us up to understand that it s not just about an.
The line in the poem the vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner.
The mood figurative speech and.
