Box Room Flashcards
“First the welcoming. Smiles all round. A space/For handshakes. Then she put me in my place”
The mother’s welcome is superficially warm, but she wants the girlfriend to feel small.
“This room/ Was always his- when he comes home/ It’s here for him.”
The mother undermines the importance of her son’s relationship with the speaker.
“Unless of course’, she said,/‘He bring a Friend’.”
The mother undermines the importance of her son’s relationship with the speaker.
“She must/ Think she can brush off time with dust/ From model aeroplanes.”
The speaker sneers at how the mother still seems to view her son as though he was still a child.
“her pathetic/ Shrine to your lost boyhood”
The speaker sneers at how the mother still seems to view her son as though he was still a child.
“I laugh it off in self defence,/Who have come for a weekend to state my permanence.”
The girlfriend tried to sound confident and defiant in the face of her boyfriend’s mother, but her doubts about how substantial the relationship with her boyfriend are clear.
“(Lightweight, glossy, made of some synthetic/ Miracle)”
The girlfriend tried to sound confident and defiant in the face of her boyfriend’s mother, but her doubts about how substantial the relationship with her boyfriend are clear.
“one small window which used to frame/ your old horizons”
The box room’s contents lead the speaker to realise that her boyfriend was a different person in his younger life.
“(But where do I fit into the picture?)”
The girlfriend’s discoveries about the boyfriend leave her feeling disillusioned and uncertain about the future of their relationship.
“Your egg collection/ Shatters me-…that now you have no interest/In”
The girlfriend’s discoveries about the boyfriend leave her feeling disillusioned and uncertain about the future of their relationship.
“Invited guest among abandoned objects, my position/ is precarious”
The girlfriend’s discoveries about the boyfriend leave her feeling disillusioned and uncertain about the future of their relationship.
