The Young Housewife (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Carlos Williams
- First Published: 1916
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Poetry or poets, Beauty, Adultery, Women, Single people, Clothing or dress, Leaves
The Poem
A short poem in free verse, “The Young Housewife” consists of three stanzaic units of four, five, and three lines each. The poem is told by a first-person narrator who seems to be William Carlos Williams himself, although one has no way of knowing that this is the case. The title identifies a woman who is the object of attention of the poem’s narrator, indicating that she is young, recently married, and identified in relation to the house in which she and her husband live.
These motifs are elaborated in the poem’s first sentence, the emotional high point...
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