1. She wants, or yearns for, her own house more than anything else as the poem suggested. The old woman is thinking of having “a little house! / To own the hearth and stool and all!” (1-2). She seems not happy where she lives and wishes to have her own home, however; planning and working alone. Certainly, she feels missing some important things in her life and she hopes that to get them one day.
2. The old woman in the poem imagines herself being “busy all the day /Cleaning and sweeping hearth and floor, / And fixing on their shelf again” (9- 11). Being a homeless person, she tries to occupy her mind with imaginations of what she will do and how she will organize and arrange her new home. For sure her expectations are tremendously high and …show more content…
Clearly, the old woman imagines herself being “quite at night / Beside the fire and by herself / Sure of a bed and loth to leave” (13-15). Having no permanent place for sleeping, she expects to have one in her new little house.She does not have fantasies that involves a great number of people, as she thinks only for herself. This tells me that she is a self-centered person. It is obvious that she enjoys living alone in her new house to have some protection for she misses it for many years.
4. The speaker is “weary of mist and dark, / And roads where there’s never a house nor bush,” (17-18). Conveniently, the speaker is afraid of being alone in a place where nobody sees what is happening to her. Also, she is concerning about the safety of her life in case if there is any danger she can hide or go to her neighbors’ house seeking for help.
5. Confidently, the old woman asks God: “For a little house – a house of her own / Out of the wind’s and the rain’s way (23-24). Her life has been exposed throughout the time for not having a shelter, but now she hopes God will grant her one. Maybe her dream and faith will become true where she will live in a house. Ultimately, she has lived in a house of her own imagination having all the things she needed, working, and organizing it throughout the
2. The old woman in the poem imagines herself being “busy all the day /Cleaning and sweeping hearth and floor, / And fixing on their shelf again” (9- 11). Being a homeless person, she tries to occupy her mind with imaginations of what she will do and how she will organize and arrange her new home. For sure her expectations are tremendously high and …show more content…
Clearly, the old woman imagines herself being “quite at night / Beside the fire and by herself / Sure of a bed and loth to leave” (13-15). Having no permanent place for sleeping, she expects to have one in her new little house.She does not have fantasies that involves a great number of people, as she thinks only for herself. This tells me that she is a self-centered person. It is obvious that she enjoys living alone in her new house to have some protection for she misses it for many years.
4. The speaker is “weary of mist and dark, / And roads where there’s never a house nor bush,” (17-18). Conveniently, the speaker is afraid of being alone in a place where nobody sees what is happening to her. Also, she is concerning about the safety of her life in case if there is any danger she can hide or go to her neighbors’ house seeking for help.
5. Confidently, the old woman asks God: “For a little house – a house of her own / Out of the wind’s and the rain’s way (23-24). Her life has been exposed throughout the time for not having a shelter, but now she hopes God will grant her one. Maybe her dream and faith will become true where she will live in a house. Ultimately, she has lived in a house of her own imagination having all the things she needed, working, and organizing it throughout the