Skunk Hour Home Quotes

Here's the beginning of the "not home" feeling we get in the poem. She lives in a modest, spare, austere cottage through winter. Doesn't sound super cozy.

Those "eyesores" are very likely homes! The heiress buys them all up so she can continue her shut-in, cold-as-ice lifestyle in peace.

This seems to have an indirect connection to home – kind of like the shopkeeper doesn't want to do what he's doing so much as he'd like to just make a home with somebody.

Back to the "not home" feeling. Is it getting chilly in here?

This is the first time we see our speaker at his house. But, again, with the other person gone, it seems too lonely to feel like a home.