Sunday Morning Themes

Have you ever been so happy that you never wanted the feeling to end – and you actually made yourself kind of unhappy by thinking about the fact that it had to end? The woman in this poem is...

The woman in "Sunday Morning" is torn between two viewpoints. Can she live in the moment and know when to let go of the good things on earth? Or, should she put her stock in Christian ideas of sacr...

For the protagonist at the beginning of the poem, "religion" means duty and sacrifice. Go to church. Go to Palestine, the location of Jesus' burial. Sacrifice your oranges and cockatoo for God. But...

It’s easy to talk about "nature" as if it were one, simple thing. But nature is many things in this poem. For the female protagonist, it’s a potential paradise and a source of beauty. B...

The main conflict of the poem is motivated by the woman’s thoughts about the death of Christ. It’s Sunday morning, and a lot of people are in church, and she thinks that maybe she shoul...