Figure of Speech Analysis

of The Vacuum Poem

 The house is so quiet now
The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet,
Its bag limp as a stopped lung, its mouth
Grinning into the floor, maybe at my
Slovenly life, my dog-dead youth.

I’ve lived this way long enough,

But when my old woman died her soul
Went into that vacuum cleaner, and I can’t bear
To see the bag swell like a belly, eating the dust
And the woolen mice, and begin to howl

Because there is old filth everywhere

She used to crawl, in the corner and under the stair.
I know now how life is cheap as dirt,
And still the hungry, angry heart
Hangs on and howls, biting at air.
“The house is so quiet now”

The piece of poem in the first line of the first verse

is included into Personification. Because the
house is a dead object but the poet gave an
attribute of human being which is quiet into the
house.
“The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet”

The piece of poem in the second line of the first

verse is included into Personification. Because the
vacuum cleaner is a dead object but the poet
gave an attribute of human being which is sulk
into that.
“Grinning into the floor”

The piece of poem in the fourth line of the first

verse is included into Personification. Because the
vacuum cleaners is a dead object but the poet
gave an attribute of human being which is grin
into that.
“eating the dust
And the woolen mice, and begin to howl”

The piece of poem in the fourth-fifth line of the

second verse is included into Personification.
Because the vacuum cleaner is a dead object
but the poet gave an attribute of human being
which is eating into that.
“She used to crawl”

The piece of poem in the second line of the third

verse is included into Personification. Because she
in here refers to the old filth that is mentioned on
the first line of the third verse so that is a dead
object but the poet gave an attribute of human
which is crawl into that.
“And still the hungry, angry heart
Hangs on and howls, biting at air.”

The piece of poem in the fourth-fifth line of the

third verse is included into Personification.
Because the heart is a non-human even though is
part of human’s organ but the poet gave an
attribute of human into the that which is
hungry,angry,hangs on,howls,and biting.
“Its bag limp as a stopped lung

The piece of poem in the second line of the first

verse is included into Simile. Because there’s
indicate the the existence of smile in the word
‘as’. In that, the poet try to compare something
which are the limp bag of vacuum cleaner and a
stopped lung by using a word ‘as’
“how life is cheap as dirt”

The piece of poem in the second line of the first

verse is included into Simile. Because there’s
indicate the the existence of smile in the word
‘as’. In that, the poet try to compare something
which are the limp bag of vacuum cleaner and a
stopped lung by using a word ‘as’
“how life is cheap as dirt”

The piece of poem in the fourth line of the

second verse is included into Simile. Because
there’s indicate the existence of simile in the
word ‘askkk’. In that, the poet try to compare
something which are the life of the people in the
poem and a dirt by using a word ‘as’