It s national poetry month and with inspiration as close as our own vacuum labs we wondered how many other poets.
The vacuum cleaner poem.
Grinning into the floor maybe at my.
To see the bag swell like a belly eating the dust.
The vacuum by howard nemerov.
I ve lived this way long enough but when my old woman died her soul went into.
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.
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.
The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet its bag limp as a stopped lung its mouth.
So begins the poem the vacuum cleaner s revenge by patricia hubbell.
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.
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A vacuum cleaner is never broken.
Went into that vacuum cleaner and i can t bear.
It s been gathering dust for a while and generally kind of sucks.
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.
The collected poems of howard nemerov the university of chicago press 1977 more about this poem.
Slovenly life my dog dead youth.
Grinning into the floor maybe at my.
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.
The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet its bag limp as a stopped lung its mouth.
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.
More poems 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 closet line 2 because there is old filth everywhere she used to crawl in the corner and under.
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 went into that vacuum cleaner and i can t bear.
51 of them in fact.