Getting Out: Simile

Throughout the poem, I noticed a couple of similes that added meaning to the poem. The first simile is in the first line of the poem which says "That year we hardly slept, waking like inmates." This simile infuses an image of either prisoners trapped in a cell or a mental inmate imprisoned in their own mind. To me, the second one seems more likely given the context of the poem and the emotional differences that led to the couples end. The next simile "heaving words like furniture" describes the destructive nature of the couple's relationship. It describes the arguements in a more severe manner and illuminates the large conflicts that the couple had. Finally, one excerpt that I think gives a more significant meaning to the poem is the phrase "our matching eyes and hair." This seems to describe a couple comprised of two people who were so alike that they could not coexist together because of such similarities eventually ending in their divorce.