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A couple argues over the husband's insensitivity and coldness after the death of their child. The poem explores the themes of love, death, and human nature through the contrast of their voices and actions.
A poem about a couple's grief and misunderstanding after losing their child. The poem explores the themes of communication, love, and death through dialogue and imagery.
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Amy is looking at something in fear. She takes a step downward hesitatingly but then retraces if to come back to the height and look at the object. The husband advances towards her and asks what it is that she keeps always looking at from there. He insists on knowing about it, and Amy turns and bends on her knees. Her face, which looked terrified t...
The husband asks her again as to what it is that she looks at. He mounts the stairs just above her, and asks her to tell him about the object, because he will anyhow find it out. Amy remains silent, and does not help him by telling him. She lets him look and find for himself, thinking that he would not be able to see or find what it was that she ha...
The husband says to Amy that it is a surprising thing that he could not guess earlier about what it was she looked at. Since he was accustomed to looking at the object and other things, he never noticed it particularly. It was the small graveyard or burial plotwhere his people were buried. The graveyard is so small that the whole of it can be seen ...
Amy slips from beneath the arms of her husband, which are resting on the railings, and starts going downstairs. She turns to him and casts a fearful glance at him. He asks her twice whether a man is not entitled to speak about his own dead child. Amy replies that at least he has no such right. Then she asks about her hat and tells her husband that ...
The husband asks Amy not to go to anyone else, but to listen to him. Saying that he will not come down the stairs, he sits there putting his chin between his fists. He tells her that he wants to ask her something. Amy replies that he does not know how to ask it. The husband asks her to help him do it. Instead of responding to his request, Amy moves...
The husband remarks to Amy that his words seem to offend her and that he does not know how to speak in a way or use the words in such a way as to please her. But he can, he says, learn how to do so. He cannot say that he understands all the things just now. Sometimes a man must cease to behave like a man with a woman in a hardy manly manner and be ...
Amy moves the latch a little to open the door. Her husband entreats her not to go to tell or consult somebody else about her trouble. He asks her to tell him about it and let him share it. He explains to her that he is not different from other people; but if she keeps herself aloof from him, he will be proved to be so. He requests her to give him a...
Amy misinterprets her husband’s consolatory words and comments that he is mocking her. The husband assures her that he is not doing so. He tells them that he is annoyed with her comment and that he will come down to her to prevent her from going out. Commenting on her bluntness and stubbornness, he remarks what kind of a woman she is and that she d...
Amy replies that he cannot speak about his own dead child because he does not know how to speak to express his grief. If he had any feelings for the child, how could he, she asks, dig its grave with his own hands. She tells that she herself saw him digging pieces of stones, making them leap in the air and fall down to form to do. She tells him that...
Listening to his wife’s brutally accusing words, the husband feels like laughing the worst laughter. He remarks that he really believes that he cursed by his wife. If he does not believe him to be cursed, that will make him feel cursed.
A poem about a couple's grief and isolation after losing their son, and the husband's inability to express his sorrow. The poem explores the themes of death, love, and communication through the imagery of a graveyard, a window, and a door.
A poem about a couple's grief and guilt after losing their child, and their struggle to cope with the loss. The speaker reveals his own role in the tragedy and his inability to comfort his wife, who blames him for their misfortune.
A poem about a couple's grief and anger after losing their first child, and their inability to communicate or cope with their loss. The poem explores themes of death, love, guilt, and isolation through the use of imagery, metaphor, and dialogue.
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