Textuality » 4A Interacting
Considering the title, the reader expects the poem is about a woman and her work or the description of a working woman. The poem is made up by thirty lines divided in a fourteen lines stanza and four quatrains. Right from the first fourteen lines you find a sort of list of works that the protagonist has to do. The woman works at home, in the country and she has also children to mind. She has to do works generally considered to women and even to men, so it seems as there were no man by her side. The lines are very short, so they gives you a very fast impression, as the woman has to do all these works quickly and without a rest. She choose very simple words to describe her works. The use of a rhetorical device as the anaphora helps you to better understand each work.
Following there is a quatrain: now the speaker tells you about some climatic events that follows her working. She uses a caesura to definite each climatic event. The second quatrain tells you about a storm that has to "blow" her away until she can "rest again". The metrological semantic field gives you the impression that she is really tired and she wishes to go away to rest. The third quatrain is again telling , with the same semantic field, you her tiredness and her wish to rest. In the last quatrain the protagonist lists some elements that are free for all like the sun or the moon glow. These are the only things that she can call it her "own". In fact all these elements are natural elements without an owner, that implies we are all the same and no one is better than the other, because in front of the "moon glow", we are all the same.