“Sorting Laundry”

Some single decisions can determine the course of one’s life. Deciding to marry is defiantly one of these decisions. In Elisavietta Ritchie’s poem, “Sorting Laundry,” the speaker compares folding laundering to making a decision about marriage. There are certain lines that leave clues leading to thoughts about marrying. The work expresses the poet’s ideas quite effectively and therefore creates a successful poem. In only the second and third lines of the poem …

…successful poem. The poem, “Sorting Laundry”, reaches it goal by getting effectively expressing the Ritchie’s ideas. In the poem, folding laundry becomes a metaphor for the thoughts on the speakers mind. With some deciphering, these thoughts can be interpreted as the speaker’s decision about getting married. By the end of the poem, it is clear the speaker has made up their mind; she will no longer have to sort the laundry by herself.