Thursday, September 30, 2010

Unlike the others

In the poem "Getting Out", the main idea is how these two people are married but it somehow just was not working out so eventually got a divorce. This is the quick, shallow version. But when read into, it seems as if the couple getting the divorce almost didn't want to get the divorce as if they still loved each other. For example, in the last stanza, the speaker describes how she and her husband were holding on to each other crying and almost just had to force themselves away from each other. So maybe it's not that the couple simply got in a fight or one did something wrong in the marriage. There has to be another reason that made them get a divorce simply because they had to even though they still loved each other. I believe that the reason for their divorce is found in the first stanza. It keeps taling about how they kept trying and trying to do something but they kept failing at doing it. What I believe they were trying to do was have a child, but for some reason they could not. They both wanted a child, so because of this, they got a divorce becuase they felt they had to go off and be with different people if they were to have a child.

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