Cozy Apologia Flashcards
What are key messages in this poem?
The smugness of being in a contented relationship.
Not all relationships are without their arguments/disruptions.
How inanimate objects remind her of her husband.
Being embarrassed about happiness in a relationship.
Themes explored
Memory
Weather
Men
Memory quotes
‘For Fred’
‘You’re bunkered in your/ Aerie, I’m perched in mine/ (Twin desks, computers, hardwood floors)’
Weather quotes
‘Today a hurricane is nudging up the coast’
‘Oddly male: Big Bad Floyd, who brings a host / Of daydreams’
‘Floyd’s / Cussing up a storm’
Men Quotes
‘Astride a dappled mare’
‘Hurricane Floyd’
‘worthless boys / Whose only talent was to kiss you senseless’
‘thin as licorice and as chewy’
‘We’re content, but fall short of the Divine’
Fred
for Fred
aerie
‘You’re bunkered in your/ Aerie, I’m perched in mine/ (Twin desks, computers, hardwood floors)’
hurricane
‘Today a hurricane is nudging up the coast’
Big
‘Oddly male: Big Bad Floyd, who brings a host / Of daydreams’
Cussing
‘Floyd’s / Cussing up a storm’
dappled
‘Astride a dappled mare’
worthless
‘worthless boys / Whose only talent was to kiss you senseless’
shooting
shooting arrows to the heart
chain
chain mail glinting
