Summary Of The Poem The Tally Stick

Analysis of the love poem Love is a mysterious and sacred emotion that only human has. Love is an emotion that is hard to explain and express. In unit one, 21 poems about love and each of them express different feeling and mood of the speakers’. The poem about love is always easy to touch the deepest place in human’s heart and affect readers’ mood. Poem “The Tally Stick” telling readers speaker’s love story. “Tally Stick” is no longer a stick used to count numbers, it becomes a stick to record every big event happened in this married couple’s life such as their wedding and the births of their children. The stick is like a timeline record their emotion whether happy or not. The poet used the stick to recall the memory and express love and satisfy to his or her marriage. The poem gives readers a warm sweet and cozy

Another poem called “The Vacuum” which also used an object as the title. However, it expresses totally different feeling and emotion from “The Tally Stick”. When speaker’s wife still alive, she always uses the vacuum cleaner to clean the house. In the poem, the speaker said, “my old woman died her soul went to that vacuum cleaner”. Therefore, the vacuum cleaner is symbolized his wife. He felt pain and misery when he sees the vacuum or hears the vacuum cleaner’s sound because it makes him recall the old memory with his wife. The vacuum is a sign keep reminding him that his “old woman” already left him. The poem express speaker’s pain and sadness of losing his wife and also shows the deep love from the speaker to her. After reading the poem, readers can get the sadness of the speaker and also feel