The Vacuum Cleaner Poem

So begins the poem the vacuum cleaner s revenge by patricia hubbell.

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. I ve lived this way long enough but when my old woman died her soul. 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. 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.

Slovenly life my dog dead youth. I got rid of my vacuum cleaner the other day. The collected poems of howard nemerov the university of chicago press 1977 more about this poem. Sourced from reddit twitter and beyond.

It s been gathering dust for a while and generally kind of sucks. To see the bag swell like a belly eating the dust. A vacuum cleaner is never broken. 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.

51 of them in fact. More poems by howard nemerov. The vacuum by howard nemerov. The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet its bag limp as a stopped lung its mouth.

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. 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. 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.

Grinning into the floor maybe at my. The vacuum cleaner sulks in the closet line 2 because there is old filth everywhere she used to crawl in the corner and under. A big list of vacuum cleaner jokes. Went into that vacuum cleaner and i can t bear.

By howard nemerov. 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 vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet its bag limp as a stopped lung its mouth. I ve lived this way long enough but when my old woman died her soul went into.