A Wife in London Flashcards
What are the key messages of this poem?
Life is not fair.
War is futile.
War ruins relationships – wasted love.
How war affects those who are waiting for the soldiers to return.
vapour
She sits in the tawny vapour
Sitting in fog / darkness - doesn’t know what has become of her husband
street-lamp
street-lamp glimmers cold
She is without the person she loves
fallen
He - has fallen - in the far South Land …
Euphemism - using a different word (not saying dead)
II - fog
fog hangs thicker
She descends into depression
Page
Page-full of his hoped return
summer
In the summer weather
The positivity of this stanza makes the poem all the more heart-breaking
stanza 2 - cracks
A messenger’s knock cracks smartly
Cracks - breaks the relationship between her and her husband
end of stanza 3 - worm
His hand, whom the worm now knows
