Focus on “A wife in London” And “Dirge Of The Dead Sisters”

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Focus on “A wife in London” And “Dirge Of The Dead Sisters”
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“A wife in London” concentrates on the wife of a soldier fighting in the war. It focuses on her feelings and thoughts of what’s going on.

In the first stanza it shows how the wife is feeling and the atmosphere she is in as she waits for a rejoinder from her husband. In this stanza the poem is written in present tense this is too add feelings and effect as if we were with the wife waiting there. As it quotes “she sits in the tourney vapour” this provides us with a atmosphere to go about as we can tell from this she is lonely and in a cold house, It also gives us the feeling she is very isolated and it is as if she is dying. “The street lamps glimmer Cold” this again symbolizes the weather as it is so cold they flicker cold. The word cold has been associated with here atmosphere a lot this can seem to make the atmosphere very depressing.

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The letter arrives of her husbands death with the words “Flashed news is in her hand…Dazes to understand” these two words clarify that she has just that very moment received the news (flashed news) and that as she is reading she becomes unstable (dazes to understand) as she reads on and is unable to come to terms with her husbands death. The letter is very blunt and gets straight to the point, as it says, “He has fallen in the far south land”. The Euphemism in this letter disguises the horrific way her husband has died. As the letter ...

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