![]() ![]() The "Homewrecker" of the title is neither the speaker or his lover, but rather both of them as their actions implode any chance they have to build a future or "home" together. Unlike "Thanksgiving 2006," however, "Homewrecker" is written in couplets rather than singleton lines, suggesting a sort of mutual entanglement or implication in the events that result from the speaker's love affair. ![]() Like the poem which immediately precedes it, "Thanksgiving 2006," "Homewrecker" is about the way that the speaker's own sex life and body can be linked to violence or ill fate. ![]() At the poem's conclusion, the speaker continues to reflect on the muddled pains and pleasures of their forbidden love with the subject, saying that they loved each other like "a knife on the tongue turning / into a tongue." Analysis Based on context clues throughout the collection and also the close correspondence of many unclear speakers in the collection to Ocean Vuong himself, it is most likely that this is because the love being spoken of is homosexual, and between two boys. It recounts the speaker's experiences with a lover and posits the idea that their love was forbidden and had to necessarily result in death and destruction. The poem "Homewrecker" is the fourteenth poem in Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds, and it is the second poem of the book's second section. ![]()
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