"Break of Day" Questions

The speaker is a woman who a man has just cheated on his wife with. She is referencing the man who “woo[ed]” her. One can assume the woman and the man just had sexual intercourse and she found out he is married; needless to say she is disgusted. This woman and the poet could have much in common; he could be a homosexual who hooks up with married men. Not much information is given for the author; therefore the reader cannot answer this section of the question.

• Line 7 states, “Light hath no tongue, but is all eye.” The light is the truth is shown the man’s wife comes home. She is shocked and cannot speak; however she is very watchful with her stink eye. In line 10-12, “I” is referring to the speaker. In line 15, love is the subject. Love led this woman to bed with this man and love lead the other woman home. Love has deceived this crazy love triangle.

• The speaker has just had a one night stand with a man and he wants to leave; or rather wants her to leave. She is explaining that just because light has come up does not mean she should leave. She is in love. The speaker is very virtuous. Though she has just fornicated she is in love and love justifies all.

• The two persons are an unmarried couple who have just had sexual intercourse. Just as any one night stand calls for the male is persuading the woman to leave because the light has went up and she feels that she is in love and wants to stay. While they are arguing the “light” shines into the room. The light can be assumed to be the man’s wife because it is just beaming at her and she leaves scorned. She states her disgust for a married man who woos other woman in the very last sentence.