Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Taking Down The Laundrey

After reading this poem, I thought the basic story of the poem is how this mother is seeing her kids grow and how their clothes change with their age. The emotion of this poem is that she is sad to see her children leave. In the poem the writer talks about wind and how it pulled her sons shirt away. I beleive that the wind symbolizes her son's leaving or that it washed them away because my favorite line is when the author says that " the laundrey billows now; everything is moving and I watch my sons shirt pull free away from the line."

5 comments:

ahlam said...

I interpreted the poem the same way but thats how all parents feel after their kids grow up and try to experiance life and thats probably how we will feel after we have kids of are own.

Jill said...

i really enjoyed this poem, and i interpreted it the same way also. I know my mom is going through it in a way with me, and with her older kids. I really liked the quote you picked also.

Lauren said...

This poem also reminds me of how my mom talks about how much my siblins and I grew up fast. But usually when she says this I think she means how tall and bigger we have gotten. All of us were tall then my mom by the time we were in sixth grade. But most of the time she just looks at our baby photos of when we were younger. I also like the quote you chose because I think that it means that the mother is watching her child grow up so fast and can't believe it.

Kristina said...

I agree that this poem is about a mother's worries on how fast her children are growing up. Whenever I reach another birthday my mother gets emotional and says that I have grown up so fast before her eyes.

Reid Morgan said...

I agree, mothers have that realization that her kids are growing up and the best way to tell a persons age is b the clothes they wear.