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The second wife speaks next and tells the others that her husband is young but also lacking as a lover due to a lecherous past. He is a young man ryght yaip, bot nought in youthis flouris, For he is fadit full far and feblit of strenth. He wes as flurising fresche within this few yeris, Bot he is falyeid full far and fulyeid in labour,
Interpreting the text of the poem as a woman's lament, many of the text's central controversies bear a similarity to those around Wulf and Eadwacer.Although it is unclear whether the protagonist's tribulations proceed from relationships with multiple lovers or a single man, Stanley B. Greenfield, in his paper "The Wife's Lament Reconsidered," discredits the claim that the poem involves ...
The poem recounts a dream vision in which the speaker saw his wife return to him (as the dead Alcestis appeared to her husband Admetus), only to see her disappear again as day comes. There is considerable discussion among scholars as to which of his first two wives Milton could refer to.
The emotional trauma of miscarriage is often overlooked when it comes to hopeful fathers, and writer Frederick Joseph wants to change that.
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She begins to show her husband her knowledge of metaphysical and "forbidden" wisdom. After an unspecified length of time Ligeia becomes ill, struggles internally with human mortality, and ultimately dies. Shortly before her death, she composes a poem titled "The Conqueror Worm" which depicts her mental state and the resignation of her mortal being.
ET has learned that Hamel, who was married to the Three's Company star for 46 years before her death, gave her an early birthday present. A handwritten love poem, wrapped in her favorite pink peonies.
Finally, the husband shouts "Will ye kiss my wife before my een, and scald me with pudding-broth?" The wife, having won the argument, gives three skips on the floor and says to her husband: "Goodman, you've spoken the foremost word, Get up and bar the door." In some versions, the husband is named as Johnie Blunt of Crawford Moor. [2]