Emotions Surrounding A Sorrowful Mind In The Wife's Lament

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The challenging emotions surrounding a “sorrowful mind”, (l.40 47) invoke an internal struggle for the wife in the poem, The Wife’s Lament. The wife endures struggles after her husband betrays and abandons her. The process of expressing this poem provides her with a meaningful and healthy outlet for her to share her strong emotions, allowing her to try and heal from her sorrowful mind. The wife begins her struggles with experiencing a sorrowful mind filled with anger that cause her the desire of seeking revenge against her husband, forcing him to become “sad-minded”. (l.42 47) The trust involved in her relationship was broken after he betrayed her. (l.20-21 46) This action is a violation against her boundaries which allows her the right to be angry with her husband. She decides to use this anger in the form of revenge claiming, “My beloved will suffer the cares of a sorrowful mind; he will remember too often a happier …show more content…

She claims that this experience involving loss is the hardest thing she has ever experienced (l.46 47) This event is painful for her because her sorrow demonstrates her significant feelings for her husband. She begins her struggles after she is forced into exile and consequently endures separation from her husband and she was filled with longing for him (l.14 46). She proclaims that her grief (l.17 46) which stem from the roots of love toward her husband because they had both repeatedly sworn, “that only death could ever divide us”. (l.22 46) This proves that the wife was in a loving and committed relationship with her husband. The wife is grieving through the loss of their adorning relationship. But, she is willing to “endure the hatred of her dearest one”, (l.26 47) instead of abandoning their relationship. This demonstrates that the wife is still experiencing grief as she is willing to endure her husbands cruel actions toward her in order to avoid completely letting go of

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