Tone in Getting Out

One thing I've really started to notice about poetry is that, more than any other genre of literature, it is pure emotion. Most poems we read have to do with hapiness, sadness, beauty, depression, love, and in this case, failed love. The speaker talks of difficult days when the couple was battled for a divorce. They hated each other as expressed in the first like when the woke" like inmates". They fought "heaved words like furniture". Similes like these two created a tone of hatred and frustration. But the real feelings are revealed when the tone switches in th last few lines when the speaker speaks of them crying and reaching for each other on the last day. What this revealed to me was that the woman hated this man and couldn't stand to be with him any longer and had to struggled in "getting out"; but, she still loved him.