My Rules
My Rules - meaning Summary
A Tongue-in-cheek Bargain
This short, comic poem lists a speaker’s mock conditions for marrying them, blending mundane domestic chores with personal comforts. The tone is playful and commanding, turning a prospective partner into a domestic servant while puncturing that demand with an abrupt, self-aware halt. The poem satirizes traditional expectations and egoism through exaggerated, conversational commands and an anticlimax that undercuts seriousness with humor.
Read Complete AnalysesIf you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must sew my holey socks, And soothe my troubled mind, And develop the knack for scratching my back, And keep my shoes spotlessly shined. And while I rest you must rake up the leaves, And when it is hailing and snowing You must shovel the walk... and be still when I talk, And -- hey -- where are you going?
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