Sorting Laundry by Elisavietta Ritche.
"If you were to leave me, if I were to fold only my own clothes."
The images in this poem tell the story of the relationship between the speaker and her partner. The different images about clothes shows the different elements of the relationship that have withstood time. My favorite image presented in this poem is the image of the socks going into the dryer and leaving alone. I think that it represents how the couple has gone through some situations and have come out feeling alone and abandoned. All the various laundry images become a metaphor for the relationship and all the things that the relationship have gone through.
This poem makes the reader question their own relationship if they have one. The poem has the effect of making the reader recognize and relate all the elements in their relationship and question whether or not their relationship is similar to the speakers and what would happen if they were left alone.
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