‘Mrs. Aesop’, tells a story of a wife who is tired of her Husband, Aesop.

He was a storyteller
who lived around the sixth century BC. The poem is written in quintets or five-line paragraphs,
written in a form of a dramatic monologue. Aesop was considered to be a person with great
influence because he rose from a status of a slave to a person with great influence. The poem is
written in colloquial tone, so it is easier for the readers to understand an ancient tale with ease.
Mrs. Aesop also uses in media res to piece up bits of information and leaves the reader to
interpret the story.
The first paragraph starts with blasphemy by Mrs. Aesop using Christ’s name in vein and
sharing her experience about how listening to Aesop could be as bad as being in purgatory
which is a place between hell and heaven where people suffer for their bad deeds before going
to heaven. Mrs. Aesop says, “bird in his hand………….in the bush” this is an allusion to one of
the Aesop’s fables . In the end of the paragraph she sums up everything she said before using
the word “tedious”.
In the 2nd paragraph she makes another reference to Aesop’s work in the beginning of the
paragraph. Later in the 4th paragraph she trashes Aesop’s story by asking questions like “What
race? what sour grapes?” Also, she continues the end of the 4th para and the start of the 5th para
using enjambment.