The challenging emotions surrounding a “sorrowful mind”, (l.40 47) invoke an internal struggle for the wife in the poem, The Wife’s Lament. The wife endures struggles after her husband betrays and abandons her. The process of expressing this poem provides her with a meaningful and healthy outlet for her to share her strong emotions, allowing her to try and heal from her sorrowful mind. The wife begins her struggles with experiencing a sorrowful mind filled with anger that cause her the desire of seeking revenge against her husband, forcing him to become “sad-minded”. (l.42 47) The trust involved in her relationship was broken after he betrayed her. (l.20-21 46) This action is a violation against her boundaries which allows her the right to be angry with her husband. She decides to use this anger in the form of revenge claiming, “My beloved will suffer the cares of a sorrowful mind; he will remember too often a happier …show more content…
She claims that this experience involving loss is the hardest thing she has ever experienced (l.46 47) This event is painful for her because her sorrow demonstrates her significant feelings for her husband. She begins her struggles after she is forced into exile and consequently endures separation from her husband and she was filled with longing for him (l.14 46). She proclaims that her grief (l.17 46) which stem from the roots of love toward her husband because they had both repeatedly sworn, “that only death could ever divide us”. (l.22 46) This proves that the wife was in a loving and committed relationship with her husband. The wife is grieving through the loss of their adorning relationship. But, she is willing to “endure the hatred of her dearest one”, (l.26 47) instead of abandoning their relationship. This demonstrates that the wife is still experiencing grief as she is willing to endure her husbands cruel actions toward her in order to avoid completely letting go of
The speaker’s rocky encounter with her ex-lover is captured through personification, diction, and tone. Overall, the poem recaps the inner conflicts that the speak endures while speaking to her ex-lover. She ponders through stages of the past and present. Memories of how they were together and the present and how she feels about him. Never once did she broadcast her emotions towards him, demonstrating the strong facade on the outside, but the crumbling structure on the inside.
The components of marriage, family and loss has played a big role in Anne Bradstreet’s writing of “Before the birth of One of Her Children”, “In Memory of Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet”, and Edward Taylor’s “Upon Wedlock and the Death of Children.” In, these writings both authors Puritan culture and their faith plays a big role. In these poems one author starts questioning their God and the other to take honor in their God throughout their grieving process, while both showing different aspects of their everlasting union with their spouse, and the love for their children.
As humans, the journey through life means forming emotional attachments to each other. The first type of attachment we form is with our family. Eventually, people grow older and form emotional attachments to individuals outside the family, as friends. Then later in life, the possibility of developing romantic relationships can arise. However, each person at some point must face the reality that the people they have bonded with will depart this world. Similarly, one must also deal with the new assortment of emotions that follow after a passing or separation. In Lydia Davis’s poem “Head, Heart”, she depicts a conversation between a head and a grief-stricken heart, which represents the internal conflict between logic and emotion following a separation
"Despondency had come upon her in the wakeful night, and it had never lifted. There was no one thing in the world that she desired. There was no human being whom she wanted near her except Robert; and she even realized that the day would come when he, too, and the thought of him would melt out of her existence, leaving her alone." (108)
Grief is an emotion of abyssal sorrow that has plagued many unfortunate mortals, including the late Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was an 1800’s gothic writer who lived a short, sorrowful life. Themes and motifs across Poe’s writings repeat, and differentiate based upon of various calamities, such as the death of a loved one. While Poe’s stories “The Raven” and “Tell-Tale Heart” have similar dark settings, and cimmerian symbols, they contrast in the source of downfall, and the narrators’ reactions to obstacles; this exhibit Poe’s debilitated disposition after the death of his wife Virginia.
The inner world exile in The Wanderer and The Wife’s Lament have in common that both exiles are affected by emotions. Both of these poems address exile in different ways; The wanderer in the inner world of exile is centered around loneliness and isolation, and self expression of wisdom. Whereas The Wife’s Lament is a poem where exile is seen from a female who has no one to turn too and has been abandoned from her husband, even though his love for her is still present.
In this poem, a man’s life is clouded by these terrible memories. Not only did his friend’s death affect his ways, his attitude, but it also affected this man’s family. For example, Diane’s
She seems to believe that manhood is the ability to perform acts of “direst cruelty” without remorse. Throughout the play we see that she worries her husband will not be man enough to do what she and him deem necessary to attain the throne. “Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness . . .” She says. Constantly we see her telling her husband to “man up” - to stop feeling remorse or guilt or fear and to start behaving like she believes a man should; like a being with no guilt or remorse. However, it is this wish for her to lose all “passage to remorse” that eventuates in her death - her corruption - from the madness that comes upon her i...
The main issue in this poem, divorce is a common problem that damages everyone involved in its circumstances. However, in the very first line, the narrator declares, without shame, that he or she was glad when his or her parents got divorced. This strange feeling is not often associated with kids when their parents split; the feeling is usually one of remorse and sadness. This strange feeling is made reasonable as it is indicated that her mother “took it and took it in silence”—a rather dark selection of words which suggest that the father is the source of the family’s difficulties (1-2). The father’s departure is even compared to the departure of one arguably the most hated president in the history of America revealing that the children and mother had no desire for him to stay. Furthermore, the speaker elaborates on the father’s problems after
There is also a sense of sadness to the poem, as she recounts of her
Mrs. Mallard is an ill woman who is “afflicted with heart trouble” and had to be told very carefully by her sister and husband’s friend that her husband had died (1609). Her illness can be concluded to have been brought upon her by her marriage. She was under a great amount of stress from her unwillingness to be a part of the relationship. Before her marriage, she had a youthful glow, but now “there was a dull stare in her eyes” (1610). Being married to Mr. Mallard stifled the joy of life that she once had. When she realizes the implications of her husband’s death, she exclaims “Free! Body and soul free!” (1610). She feels as though a weight has been lifted off her shoulders and instead of grieving for him, she rejoices for herself. His death is seen as the beginn...
Not attempting to hide, Mrs. Mallard knows that she will weep at her husbands funeral, however she can’t help this sudden feeling of seeing, “beyond [the] bitter moment [of] procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely” (Chopin, 16). In an unloving marriage of this time, women were trapped in their roles until they were freed by the death of their husbands. Although Mrs. Mallard claims that her husband was kind and loving, she can’t help the sudden spark of joy of her new freedom. This is her view on the release of her oppression from her roles of being a dutiful wife to her husband. Altogether, Mrs. Mallard claims that, “there would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature” (Chopin, 16). This is the most important of Mrs. Mallard’s thoughts, as she never officially states a specific way when her husband oppressed her. However, the audience can clearly suggest that this is a hint towards marriage in general that it suffocates both men and women. Marriage is an equal partnership in which compromise and communication become the dominant ideals to make the marriage better. It is suggested that Mrs. Mallard also oppressed her husband just as much as he did to her when she sinks into the armchair and is, “pressed down by a physical exhaustion
Mrs. Mallard’s repressed married life is a secret that she keeps to herself. She is not open and honest with her sister Josephine who has shown nothing but concern. This is clearly evident in the great care that her sister and husband’s friend Richard show to break the news of her husband’s tragic death as gently as they can. They think that she is so much in love with him that hearing the news of his death would aggravate her poor heart condition and lead to death. Little do they know that she did not love him dearly at all and in fact took the news in a very positive way, opening her arms to welcome a new life without her husband. This can be seen in the fact that when she storms into her room and her focus shifts drastically from that of her husband’s death to nature that is symbolic of new life and possibilities awaiting her. Her senses came to life; they come alive to the beauty in the nature. Her eyes could reach the vastness of the sky; she could smell the delicious breath of rain in the air; and ears became attentive to a song f...
when I see another feeling grief can I not go and find relief from it?
The Theme of Love is presented by the widow, as she demonstrates a deeper love for her dead husband. She refuses to following the precession with the loose hair, and the beating of the naked breast in front of the crowd. At the beginning of the story, the widow is presented as being devoted. Her actions are described as being overly devoted to her dead husband by the dissatisfaction with the traditional norms of mourning. Petronius writes, “She followed the dead man even to his resting place, and began to watch and weep night and day over the body” (1, paragraph 2) Petronius suggests the widow’s love by her state of mind being lost in her grief, “Even to his resting place”. Another example of the love the widow demonstrates through the story is the sacrifice of her dead husband body to save her new love. The widow reacts to the soldier’s grief, for a crucified man’s body has been taken and he will have to take its place. She shows that even ...