'This Room' Commentary

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This Room Commentary ‘This Room’ is a poem that speaks about a woman who is about to change her life. It speaks about how this woman lives in a cramped, stuffy room – both metaphorically and literally - and wants to visit the world. This poem revolves around a common theme of change and rejuvenation. Each stanza in ‘This Room’ is linked back to the previous one, and builds upon it. The amount of lines per stanza greatly vary, starting at one line per stanza and stretching all the way to nine lines. This makes the poem look different to most other poems, suggesting a change and something different, which relates to what the whole poem is speaking about: change and rejuvenation. The first stanza is basically an overview of the narrator, in the metaphor of a room. “This room…its own walls”. These three lines speak about how the narrator is trying to break down the barriers surrounding her, the barriers that are holding her back from accomplishing what she wants to accomplish. It’s the best piece of imagery in this poem because it introduces the reader to a chaotic, unhappy ‘room’ that wants to be free. “In search of space, light, empty air.” The narrator is searching for space to breath, space to move around. This suggests to the reader that the narrator is cramped and doesn’t like it. She wants to be free and be able to move around and make her own decisions. The second stanza is where the actions start to become more specific. The poet starts speaking about specific objects because those objects relate to the emotions that used to empower the narrator prior to her change and rejuvenation. “The bed is lifting out of its nightmares.” These two lines suggest that she used to live her live in a nightmarish state, and the poet is relating nightmares to a bed. The lines say that her nightmarish life is now over, hence ‘lifting out of its nightmares.” “From dark
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