Living In Sin Essay Research Paper This

Living In Sin Essay, Research Paper

This poem?s speaker is a woman who is disillusioned with, and may feel guilty

about the relationship she is in. The studio apartment in which she lives,

(maybe with her lover and/or husband) symbolically parallels the relationship.

Lines 1-7 suggest that she used to have an ideal vision of the relationship (and

the studio), but in the cold light of the morning, the vision disappears. The

studio?s deteriorated state symbolizes the state of the relationship. Another

way to put it is that her perception of the studio?s state reflects her

sadness. She perceives the studio?s disrepair when she has lost her rose

colored glasses. Lines 8-14 describe more of the studio?s messiness. For

example, remnants of the previous night?s love (the bottles of wine) now

appear dead and empty, suggesting to me, that these signs of the studio?s

dirtiness, are symptoms of the problem but don?t create the problem itself.

The relationship seems to be the problem. In lines 15-22 the lover is described

as bored and incommunicative. The speaker, perhaps motivated by her guilt, makes

an attempt to clean the studio and just maybe, her allowing the coffee pot to

boil over could be interpreted as symbolizing her allowing her lover to continue

to behave as he does. The final four lines appear to indicate that while the

speaker regains her idealized vision of the relationship at night, every

morning, she knows that it will disappear again.