summary of the poem clothes-line
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1st Stanza:
The poetess Charlotte Druitt Cole is talking about the clothes hanging on the clothesline. To her, they look as f they are holding hands, standing in a row and dancing merrily. She compares them to the white birds that fly in the sky.
2nd Stanza:
Here the poetess compares the clothes hanging on the clothesline to restless horses that are leaping and galloping with happiness. As the clothes flutter on the clothesline, they form a bowl like shape that is round at the edges and hollow in the centre. The poetess also feels that the clothes are shivering and skipping in the wind that is very happy during the month of March.
3rd Stanza:
Without specifically stating, the poetess says that once she saw someone dance excitedly and with great struggle she freed herself. Then leaving the pegs and the clothesline she flew like a bird so far that o one was able to follow her and now no one can find her.
4th Stanza:
Continuing with the suspense, the poetess compares ‘that someone’ to a shinning sail. The poetess tells us that she was flipping, flapping and flopping away with happiness. She flew away so fast that nobody knows where she went and where she could be. Thinking of the worst that could happen, the poetess wonders whether she is hiding in a ditch or may have drowned in the sea.
5th Stanza:
It’s only in the last two lines of the poem that the poetess reveals that she was talking about her handkerchief that flew away not very long ago. She is sure that it will not come back to her and it is lost forever.
The poetess begins the poem with a happy note of clothes dancing on the clothes line but she ends it with a sad note of her handkerchief flying away and never coming back.
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Answer:
the poetess tells us that she was flipping, flapping and flopping away with happiness. ...The poetess begins with the poem with a happy note of clothes line but she ends it with a sad note of her handkerchief flying away and never coming back.