The Vacuum Poem Notes

The vacuum is either a depiction of his spouse or a symbol of his previous memories of her when my old woman died her soul went into that vacuum cleaner its bag limp.

The vacuum poem notes. 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. 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 fact that the poem is entitled the vacuum and not the vacuum. He is impacted by her absence and he sheds light on his feelings through the.

The vacuum by howard nemerov talks about a widower and his late wife and how he uses the vacuum as a symbol for her death. The mood figurative speech and. Howard nemerov s the vacuum is structured around a central pun that of the vacuum. The poem expresses deep sorrow and sadness that derive from the loneliness of the speaker after his other half s passing away.

Howard nemerov s poem the vacuum utilizes decreation by illustrating the speaker s empty meaningless life after his wife my old woman passed away. The vacuum by howard nemerov talks about a widower and his late wife and how he uses the vacuum as a symbol for her death. However howard nemerov attempted the trying task and created the poem the vacuum in 1955. The vacuum by howard nemerov is told from the perspective of an older man who is a widower.

Nemerov attempts to take his readers on a grief stricken journey by. He misses his dead wife. 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 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.

This poem explained death in a way that all of us endeavor to.