The Vacuum Cleaner Poem

The vacuum by howard nemerov.

The vacuum cleaner poem.

The vacuum by howard nemerov 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. Sourced from reddit twitter and beyond. It s been gathering dust for a while and generally kind of sucks. 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.

Went into that vacuum cleaner and i can t bear. By howard nemerov. 51 of them in fact. 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.

So begins the poem the vacuum cleaner s revenge by patricia hubbell. I ve lived this way long enough but when my old woman died her soul. The collected poems of howard nemerov the university of chicago press 1977 more about this poem. It s national poetry month and with inspiration as close as our own vacuum labs we wondered how many other poets.

I got rid of my vacuum cleaner the other day. Grinning into the floor maybe at my. The poem itself has many examples of personification all throughout the stanzas suggesting that the speaker highly connects the vacuum to his wife and her demise as well as to his ordeal after losing her. The poem itself has many examples of personification all throughout the stanzas suggesting that the speaker highly connects the vacuum to his wife and her demise as well as to his ordeal after losing her.

To see the bag swell like a belly eating the dust. Grinning into the floor maybe at my. A vacuum cleaner is never broken. While lovers of music assemble each night at the opera house to shudder to thrill.

The vacuum cleaner sulks in the closet line 2 because there is old filth everywhere she used to crawl in the corner and under. The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet its bag limp as a stopped lung its mouth. A poem of progress though swinburne may sing like a siren and tennyson trill like a thrush though bachelors rave about byron and girls over longfellow gush no epic that critics can write of supplies a delight that is keener than that which i daily obtain from the sight of a vacuum cleaner. The vacuum cleaner sulks in the closet line 2 because there is old filth everywhere she used to crawl in the corner and under.

Slovenly life my dog dead youth. The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet its bag limp as a stopped lung its mouth. A big list of vacuum cleaner jokes. 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.