housewife (EAH)

The young house wife may seem like an easy read to some but important
tidbits about the poem are over passed if it not observed properly. This is
a very dark poem about the duality of lust. The first section is about his
dreams, it is how he sees this woman. He tells us she is behind the walls,
meaning he does not see her, so he fantasies about her and he sees her as a
loose woman. The description of the tone, also implies that she is trapped
in this house and is unreachable... except when she comes out to do the
normal chores, he now looks at her as woman who is begging for attention
and is desperate because she of the realization of time and beauty..not
because she is no longer attractive. These lines are written with anger and
show her as desperately vane. He compares her to a fallen leaf not because
of her physical nature, per-say but because of her soul. As time passes he lets go of
his obsession with her.