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Breakfast summary for appreciation of English literary texts.

In his poem, "Breakfast", the poet Jacques prevert presents a family matter in the conventional society. Such conflicts are quite common in day to day life of husbands and wives but the poet presents this thing in a precise poetic way. The incident is presented in the first person corner so wife is the narrator and throughout the incident, she watches her husband's behaviour keenly. According to the incident of the poem, the narrator watches how her husband pours coffee into his cup, then milk and sugar and stirs it with his teaspoon and then he drinks it but without speaking a single word. Then he lights a cigarette and blows out rings of smoke; he puts the ash in the ash tray even without looking at her. Then he gets up, puts hat on his head and puts on his raincoat because it is raining and leaves home in the rain without a single word or look. Finally, she puts her head in her hands and weeps. The poet conveys his message in an effective way using many literary devices. The poet has employed symbolism, repetition,  mommonologue form, flashback, visual imagery,  enjambment, sense of authenticity and dadramatic presentation in order to promote the conflict between the couple. The poet has used symbolism very meaningfully in his poem. The rain is quite significant here. The poet has used it as a synsymbol which contributes to worsen the conflict. Normally, in such an environment,  he should stay at home with his wife. But here the poet has taken the rain to reinforce his anger in his mind It promotes her attachment to her husband that she is waiting anxiously for any response from him.