Great care was taken to tell Louise Mallard, who has a heart problem, of her husband’s death, Brently Mallard, during a railroad disaster. It was her sister Josephine, with Brently’s friend, Richards standing there for support, who gave Louise the news of her husband’s death, she immediately started to weep. “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, paralyzed inability to accept its significance.” (p. 15) Upon receiving the news, Louise is thrown into a downward spiral of her emotions. “She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms.”(p. 15) After she was done grieving in her sister arms, Louise went upstairs and locked herself in her room and immediately began mourning the loss of husband. She went over to a comfortable armchair and sank down into it.
Duffy seems to use a lot of repetition and alliteration such as “over and over”, “dead, dead” I believe she uses this to symbolise that she thought of him repeatedly. I believe this stanza displays her almost hating him because he died, which believe gives a sense of resentment over him. It also says “Married” which implies that she had wed Lazarus the same day she had lost him, it says “ripped the cloth I was married in” this portrays that she got married on the day that her husband died and had ripped her wedding clothes from her body because of her suffering that she went through on the day. Where it says “burial stones” I believe this conveys the image of a graveyard where she grieved over her loss and it implies that it was a terrifying experience for her. In the second stanza Duffy talks about the loneliness that she is going through and how she can’t stand to live without him.
The fight for women’s rights developed after the war had ended, but Plath was also around to witness the horror of the war. Plath was especially moved by the Holocaust. She used references to the Holocaust numerous times in her works. One of her most famous poems “Daddy” explained how hurt and depressed she became after her fathers early death. Plath references the Holocaust in this poem to show how much aggression and betrayal she felt as a result of her father’s death.
His mother is in shock that her four-year-old son could actually be dead, “Away at school, as my mother held my hand/ In her and coughed out angry tearless sighs”(12-13). The line, “And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow”, can be interpreted as both figurative and literal to the reader making them envision how hard the car stuck the child. The structure of this poem ensures that the last line is emphasized. The poem is written in three-line stanzas except for the last line, which stands alone. Also there is no rhyme or rhythm in this poem expect for in the last line of the seventh stanza and the last line.
When the word come down that her husband had been in a train accident and feared dead her family and friends knew to break the news to her as easily as they possibly could. Knowing how Mrs. Mallard felt about her husband for a few minutes she became inconsolable and cried in the arms of her sister, Clugston, (2010) “She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone” (sec 2.2. para 3). After Mrs. Mallard goes to her room and sits down in the chair and starts looking out of the window things for her start to change even though she
Although Sylvia Plath experienced a hard life full of suicidal thoughts, these unbearable times ultimately led to her most famous poetry today. Plath was born into a Massachusetts home on October 27, 1932 to a highly academic couple. When she was only eight years old her father died of diabetes. When Plath was 21 years old, she went through a serious depression and attempted suicide. Soon after, she met Ted Hughes, an English poet, and married him in 1956 (“Sylvia Plath” 1).
He continually juxtaposes images of the passion he felt for the woman he loved with the loneliness he experiences in the present. He is now at some distance from the relationship and so acknowledges, “tonight I can write the saddest lines,” suggesting that the pain he suffered after losing his lover had previously prevented any reminiscences or descriptions of it. While the pain he experienced had blocked his creative energies in the past, he is now able to write about their relationship and find some comfort in “the verse [that] falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.” Love and Passion Throughout the poem, the speaker expresses his great love for a woman with whom he had a passionate romance. He remembers physical details: “her great still eyes,” “her voice, her bright body,” “her infinite eyes.” He also remembers kissing her “again and again under the endless sky” admitting “how I loved her.” His love for her is still evident even though he states twice “I no longer love her, that’s certain.” The remembrance of their love is still too painful to allow
“The Going” – THOMAS HARDY 'The Going' is a poem mourning the death and loss of Hardy's wife Emma. The themes of anguish, love and regret are echoes throughout the poem. Thomas Hardy’s wife, Emma, died suddenly of an illness, and this 1912 first-person poem is all about him and his feelings. It is also almost a complaint where, even in the first line of the first stanza, he asks, “Why did you give no hint that night / …(that) You would close your term here, up and be gone…?” Even if the reader knew nothing of Hardy’s personal loss, one can see that this is all about dying. In the first stanza, again, the poet tells us that the object of this poem went “Where I could not follow /… To gain one glimpse of you ever anon!” In the second stanza, the author tells of how his world has been altered permanently.
The poem “Acquainted with the Night” By Robert Frost seems to have a somber, almost depressed tone. It is no secret that many of Frost’s poems have the same kind of tone to them. Many say that this is due to the unfortunate loss of his son Elliot in 1900 from cholera, his mother in the same year from cancer, daughter Elinor Bettina just one day after birth in 1907, daughter Marjorie after giving birth to her only child in 1934, and his son Carol from suicide on 1940. All of this death in the family contributed to Frost falling into a depressed state where many of his poems immersed from. This poem is set in a sad and lonely city on a sad and lonely night.
One of the biggest inspiration in his art was his neighbor Anna Christina Olson of South Cushing, Maine, who suffered from a degenerative muscle condition- polio, which took away her ability to walk (Wikipedia). Wyeth’s work underwent a significant change after the loss of his father. The palette of his paintings became subdued, his landscapes empty and his figures sad and pathetic. Christina's World represents all of these characteristics and reflects the painter’s inner grief. At first, when we look at the painting in the foreground we see a young, white, slim women wearing a light pink dress and gray worn shoes.