ENG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bathysphere, Vacuum Cleaner, Double Entendre
5 Oct 2017
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The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet, Its bag limp as a stopped lung, its mouth. 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 woolen mice, and begin to howl. She used to crawl, in the corner and under the stair. I know now how life is cheap as dirt, Not the vacuum cleaner because it"s more than the appliance. Void, absence, being sucked into that void. 1955 very domesticated, very clear gender dynamics within the unit. Three stanzas there is a period at the end of the 1st stanza and the last stanza after stair and air . Period signifies a complete stop, shift that takes place. When one line runs into the other = enjambment. Immediate present, so = very quiet, and reinforces the silence/loss. Vacuum becomes human through attributes is given.
