Blog #2

Sorting Laundry by Elisavietta Ritchie

This extended metaphor compares folding laundry to folding the speaker's lover into her life. I like this poem because it's not about the perfect couple. This couple has been around the block a few times, their relationship has had a few wrinkles and broken chains, but they are ultimately happy and content with how their relationship has grown. Their pillows still hold their dreams, although they have been washed numerous times, and their old, corcky towels are still used even though they are old and cheap.  No, this is not a new and exciting relationship, but a relationship filled with loyalty and stability. The speak states, " If you were to leave me, If i were to fold only my own clothes..."(Ritchie, 842). This reveals the speakers love and devotion to her significant other. She makes the point that her life would be endlessly lonely and cluttered without him. She uses a hyperbole to describe this despair, " a mountain of unsorted wash could fill the empty side of the bed,"( Ritchie, 842). Her lover is irreplaceable to her and no other could take his place on the opposite side of the bed.