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.