"Every night another refusal, the silent work of tightening the heart." Lines 2-4
I guess it's true that marriage is a truly horrid time. At least that's what Mathis implies. In the poem, the speaker starts right off talking of the horrors of marriage, calling her and her husband "inmates", implying that marriage is like a prison. She says that words are "heaved like furniture", hinting that harsh things were said between the two. However, she soon changes her negative diction. By the end of the poem it is apparent that she misses her ex-husband. She tells the reader that she and her husband cried on the last day and unwillingly separated and went on their final ways. Her diction goes from angry to remorseful, which is a reflection on the life of the speaker. Although she seems to be doing all right by herself and still keeps in touch with her ex-husband, she misses him.
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