Sorting Laundry

This poem really develops in the most interesting time. Sorting Laundry by Elisavietta Ritche does this through some methods of varying lines, size development, and stress at the end of the poem. The varying lines was nice how throughout the beginning the consistency that allowed the reader to keep up well with the progression of the speakers laundry in relation to the relationship that she is in. The way that the articles slowly went from big to small also helped display the bigger, less important aspects of the relationship compared to the smaller, but increasingly important aspects.The way that this is how the speaker wrote to start the poem helped build for the switch up at the end when something changes. The author changes by starting to write about the idea of ending the relationship and how this would affect both her and the way she did her laundry.
Another part that seemed intriguing was how in the beginning, the lines really might have developed an issue only to reveal that it was not a big deal in this relationship and the people were able to get through it anyway. They also, in a sense, reveal characteristics that show aspects of their relationship to show how they work together as people. When the author writes about how they are laxative about how the laundry is sometimes, "All those wrinkles, to be smoothed, or else ignored,"(19-21) says something about how they deal with the problems in their relationship.