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The Wife’s Lament

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The Wife’s Lament

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  1. The Wife’s Lament

  2. ”The Wife‘s Lament” - 1st and only female-written poem in early British literature - Elegiac Banished by husband/his kin Caesura (a pause in the middle of the line)

  3. Close Reading: “The Wife’s Lament” Classroom work • Title: Why is the title fitting? How does it relate to what you know about elegies? • Paraphrase: Summarize the poem in no more than three sentences. • Connotation: Choose three key examples of figurative language and analyze the significance of each within the poem. Decide why the poet includes caesuras throughout the poem: What might the represent? • Attitude: What is the wife’s tone within the poem? • Shift: Are there any shifts in tone or in subject that should be analyzed more deeply? Explain. • Theme: What is the overall theme message of this poem?

  4. Why does he leave? Why does she remain in exile? TWO POSSIBILITIES • The husband himself has been exiled because of some feud, which leaves the wife alone with his hostile kin • He sends her to live in exile away from them • She cannot return to her clan now that she is a part of a separate (hostile) clan • Peaceweaver • The husband banishes her as he is pressured by his family to do so

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