Windchime
By: Tony Hoagland
She goes to hang out the windchime
in her nightie and her work boots.
It's six-thirty in the morning
and she's standing on the plastic ice tiptoe to reach the crossbeam of the porch,
windchime in her left hand,
hammer in her right, the nail
gripped tight between her teeth
but nothing happen next because
she's trying to figure out
She must have been standing in the kitchen,
coffee in her hand, asleep,
when she heard it-the wind blowing
through the sound the windchime
wasn't making
because it wasn't there
No one, including me, especially anymore believes
till death do us part,
but I can see what I would miss in leaving-
the way her ankles go into the work boots
as she stands upon the ice chest;
the problem scrunched into her forehead;
the little kissable mouth
with the nail in it
Describe the structure of this poem
The poem above consist of 4 stanzas, each stanza is formed by 5 to 8 lines each. The poem does not have any rhyme and is a free-verse however it addressed to someone, appreciate and praising the person almost like and ode. All the stanza are collected/indented in the middle.
Explain the meaning of each stanza
1
The first stanza describes the woman that author is addressing. He describe what she is doing and what she is wearing and what time is it, the woman is reaching out to the crossbeam of the porch trying to hang up the windchime.
2
In this stanza the author explains the woman is holding a windchime and a hammer also a nail in between her teeth. But nothing happens because the woman can't figure out how to switch #1 with #3. Here i think number #1 is the windchime, #2 is the hammer and the #3 is the nail. The woman can't figure out how to switch between the nail and the windchime.
3
The 3rd stanza tell us that the woman is now asleep with coffee in her hand, the wind blows but the windchime doesn't make a sound because the windchime wasn't there. This means the woman have failed to hung up the windchime onto the crosbeam and that she is tired.
4
Here the author express his own feeling about the woman, that he would like to be with her forever and that he wouldn't leave her, because he would miss her work boots, her standing on the ice chest and her kissable mouth.
Explain how the author feels about the woman and the situation
In the poem "Winchime", the author Tony Hoagland is head over heels over the woman he is writing about. Here in this poem he romanticize the little things that the woman is doing, he adores everything about her. This metaphor is used to emphasize these little things in life that do go unnoticed, and probably unappreciated, but they all do play a factor in the person that we are, and especially in the person that we love.
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