My Favorite Poem

While skimming through Word of Mouth, a compilation of poems by many poets, I came across a poem on page 48 that I found very interesting. The poem, named Blues by Joseph Brodsky, talks about the life that he spent in Manhattan. He says that in his 18 years of living there, the landlord he was working for turned bad. He expresses his hatred for the landlord and says that all he cares about is the money.
He expresses his motivation of moving in the second stanza when he says the line, “I guess I’ve got to move across the river, New Jersey beckons with its sulphur glow”. By saying this he is willing to move away from his landlord so he could go live in New Jersey. He wants to leave in a couple of years, but he says that he has no money and that it is hard to get the money to move.
In the third stanza, he talks about taking his things with him once he leaves so that he could start a new life in New Jersey. However, he feels that he’s losing a part of him because he feels attached to the place that he has been in for such a long time. The line that shows us this is, “But what should I do with my window’s view? I feel like I’ve been married to it, or something.” He believes that is he leaves his landlord that he will start a better life but he doesn’t really want to leave his past.