Trapped
Trapped - meaning Summary
Alienation and Defiant Survival
The speaker sketches a raw, solitary self-image: shabby, hungover, sexual, and physically small yet emotionally large. He mixes domestic detail and coarse humor with sudden, anguished declarations—preferring death to tears, dependent on dogs, wanting to scream against the white refrigerator. The poem collapses vulnerability and bravado into a single voice that insists on endurance and scale, claiming to be "bigger than the mountains" despite impoverished surroundings.
Read Complete Analysesin the winter on my ceiling my eyes the size of street- lamps. I have 4 feet like a mouse but wash my own underwear-bearded and hungover and a hard-on and no lawyer. I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can't stand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger then the mountains.
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