I agree with IsItAlwaysLikeThis, more or less.
The narrator being stuck in a relationship, developing hate for a person he was once fond of. I also came to think of this because of the title – being unchangeably part of something which you detest. The a blade is mentioned, maybe to put an end to it. He wonders “Is it always like this?” because he was in love at the beginning and is now so disappointed – do all relationships take this course? Why did he get into this in the first place? It must have been her” voodoo smile”. And he is not only disappointed but disgusted, perhaps feeling like he’d rather died being stained by the contact, as if ‘worms were already eating his skin away’.
I think that the right light does not necessarily refer to prostitution.
But who is the girl at the window?
Maybe she reminds him of freedom (the window being a symbol), of the feelings you have when you are happily in love, however in some way makes him realise that he is uncontent. I mean, that does happen sometimes, doesn’t it? You are in a relationship, neither happy nor really sad, than you just see someone, and you don’t even know the person, and suddenly you notice how distressed you are.
“I walked away and grew old”, to my mind, is only an imagination of what would be the alternative to his present situation – something mirthless. We don’t now why, but there is no way out for the narrator, the only thing he can do is to remember that “we all die”.
@Tschiggn The girl at the window is Sylvia Plath: this is song about the Hughes/Plath relationship. When Plath had writer’s block Hughes advised her to base a poem on the view from their window: this led to the poem ‘The moon and the yew tree’
@Tschiggn The girl at the window is Sylvia Plath: this is song about the Hughes/Plath relationship. When Plath had writer’s block Hughes advised her to base a poem on the view from their window: this led to the poem ‘The moon and the yew tree’
I agree with IsItAlwaysLikeThis, more or less. The narrator being stuck in a relationship, developing hate for a person he was once fond of. I also came to think of this because of the title – being unchangeably part of something which you detest. The a blade is mentioned, maybe to put an end to it. He wonders “Is it always like this?” because he was in love at the beginning and is now so disappointed – do all relationships take this course? Why did he get into this in the first place? It must have been her” voodoo smile”. And he is not only disappointed but disgusted, perhaps feeling like he’d rather died being stained by the contact, as if ‘worms were already eating his skin away’. I think that the right light does not necessarily refer to prostitution. But who is the girl at the window? Maybe she reminds him of freedom (the window being a symbol), of the feelings you have when you are happily in love, however in some way makes him realise that he is uncontent. I mean, that does happen sometimes, doesn’t it? You are in a relationship, neither happy nor really sad, than you just see someone, and you don’t even know the person, and suddenly you notice how distressed you are. “I walked away and grew old”, to my mind, is only an imagination of what would be the alternative to his present situation – something mirthless. We don’t now why, but there is no way out for the narrator, the only thing he can do is to remember that “we all die”.
@Tschiggn The girl at the window is Sylvia Plath: this is song about the Hughes/Plath relationship. When Plath had writer’s block Hughes advised her to base a poem on the view from their window: this led to the poem ‘The moon and the yew tree’
@Tschiggn The girl at the window is Sylvia Plath: this is song about the Hughes/Plath relationship. When Plath had writer’s block Hughes advised her to base a poem on the view from their window: this led to the poem ‘The moon and the yew tree’