Poem Analysis Analysis Essay Example

scene around the house is chaotic by having the dog run around barking. The attitudes of the two daughters represent the attitudes of the parents: the older one has been happy living there and is upset to be leaving, while the other is glad to go.

Although these are the only two mentioned, the implication is that there are more children, enough to create a hectic situation while running around.The shrivelled fruit on the blackberry vines that is mentioned kind of omen of the memory to come at the end of the poem, which takes the woman back to the time when the fruit was new. There is a sense of weariness and despair in the way that the woman decides, to not ask why they are leaving or where they are going; these would be natural questions, but she apparently knows from experience that asking will not change the man’s mind. [ I really liked the ending of the poem]When she looked forward to what life would bring them at the new location, he was her love “Tom,” but when they are leaving after a few months without having bettered their lives at all she knows better than to think that their lives will be any better in the new place. Her mind is so deadened that in the present she does not even think of him by name anymore, as if her “Tom” were someone from a different time, with whom she wanted to share life, and not the man that she blindly, follows.