Write 2 page essay on the topic Poetry Explication Living In Sin w/works cited.entral theme in the poem based on the perspectives of different readers may be the realities of married life, disillusion

Write 2 page essay on the topic Poetry Explication Living In Sin w/works cited.

entral theme in the poem based on the perspectives of different readers may be the realities of married life, disillusionment, regrets on marriage or an illicit relationship. The lines, “She had thought the studio would keep itself. no dust upon the furniture of love. Half heresy, to wish the taps less vocal,

the panes relieved of grime” (Rich 1083) suggests a woman expecting a romantic life similar to a fairytale princess who would not take care of putting the house or the studio in order reflecting the realities on her married life and giving the woman a reality check on her illusions of a worry-free married life or relationship. The theme of the poem is supported by the tone and imagery used by the poet. Living in Sin’s tone is evidently that of regret. The lines, “Meanwhile, he, with a yawn, sounded a dozen notes upon the keyboard, declared it out of tune, shrugged at the mirror, rubbed at his beard, went out for cigarettes.” and “pulled back the sheets and made the bed and found a towel to dust the table-top, and let the coffee-pot boil over on the stove.” (1084) demonstrates that the woman regrets marriage or having a relationship with a man who wakes up in the morning leaving the woman to tend the house and the bed. These lines also show the disillusionment of the woman that her married life or relationship she had would not be happy at all time, as she had imagined. Meanwhile, the element of imagery can be seen throughout the poem. The part of the poem stating, “A plate of pears, a piano with a Persian shawl, a cat stalking the picturesque amusing mouse had risen at his urging. Not that at five each separate stair would writhe under the milkmans tramp. that morning light” (1084) describes the scene in the dwelling place of the characters in the poem at five o’clock in the morning. This account of the morning view in the poem’s setting is also detailed in the lines, “so coldly would delineate the scraps of last nights cheese and three