Sorting Laundry

The poem Sorting Laundry by Elisavietta Ritchie uses a lot of personification. Throughout the course of the poem, different pieces of clothing are personified. The clothing in the poems are not only personified, but they are also used to recreate memories for the speaker. The poem talked about both wrinkled and smooth clothing. I think that both the wrinkled and smooth clothing have meanings into parts in their lives. I think that the wrinkled clothing are things in the speakers life that they have left to the side or not taken care off. "All those wrinkles to be smoothed, or else ignored" (Rithchie, 19-20). I think that the smooth pieces of clothing discussed in the poem are the things in the speakers life that they have taken the time to work through. The wrinkles and the smoothness also can symbolize the amount of time that the speaker spends on those part of their lives. The wrinkled shirts show the things in their lives that they have put to side or spent very little time on. The smooth shirts represent the things in their lives that are important to them and they spend a lot of time worrying about.