Getting Out

This poem seems like they are talking about trying to have a kid but they physically are not able to."Every night another refusal", every night they attempt to have a child but it never works. Then "exaughsted" they "gave up". This is uncommon in society today because when couples are not able to have kids they usually just adopt. The next step on this couple's mind is to get a divorce. This divorce is strange because it is clear that neither of them want it to happen. They hold hands as they go up to the lawyer and cried on the last day. It is unclear to the audience what this could mean but it is extremely sad. Nothing went wrong in their relationship, it just didn't work out. Another thing I noticed in the poem that emphasized the seperation of the poem is that in the first stanza there is repetition of "we". In the second and third stanza they use "I". This transition shows the reader the couple has split.