Elisavietta Ritchie
The speaker uses an extended metaphor of sorting laundered clothes and folding them as she seems to put meaning to them through her relationship with her spouse. Each of these pieces of laundry resemble qualities or occurrences in their relationship. All of these parts make up the speaker's life, and without them, she would just have a pile of her own clothes on the bed beside her. Her life isn't made up of only what she has collected, but also of what her spouse has brought. She recalls first of her king-sized sheets, which lead her to her pillowcases on which she has dreamed and shared her dreams with her partner. The most surprising part of the poem is when the speaker alludes to apparent indiscretion, "if you were to leave me". She also speaks of a "strangely tailored shirt left by a former lover..." Despite these faults, she still holds onto the relationship, because she would not be herself without them.
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