The literary technique understatement is used to enhance the poem. Poet’s main concern is not the family but the environment around them. For instance the poet talks about the broken window panes, it may be useless in the real world but in the poem it holds a lot of significance. The other aspect is that the husband claims that ‘the man she loves who happens to be me’. Although he pays zero attention to what his lady but inside he knows she loves him that makes him really happy.