Blue Maroons
Blue Maroons - meaning Summary
Endurance in Domestic Life
The poem depicts a married woman who endures her husband’s repeated verbal abuse and reduces it to an ordinary, meaningless event. She calibrates her identity around household roles and objects—clocks, pitchers, spoons—measuring herself by practical duties rather than confrontation. Rather than rebel, she rationalizes his behavior and continues domestic labor, revealing resignation, the normalization of mistreatment, and the quiet, routinized maintenance of family life despite emotional injury.
Read Complete Analyses'YOU ****,' he flung at her. It was more than a hundred times He had thrown it into her face And by this time it meant nothing to her. She said to herself upstairs sweeping, 'Clocks are to tell time with, pitchers Hold milk, spoons dip out gravy, and a Coffee pot keeps the respect of those Who drink coffee-I am a woman whose Husband gives her a kiss once for ten Times he throws it in my face, 'You ****.' If I go to a small town and him along Or if I go to a big city and him along. What of it? Am I better off?' She swept The upstairs and came downstairs to fix Dinner for the family.
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