Friday, January 3, 2003

To Speak Of Woe That Is In Marriage Comments

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'It is the future generation that presses into being by means of
these exuberant feelings and supersensible soap bubbles of ours.'
- Schopenhauer
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Robert Lowell
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Michael Walker 19 December 2019

Written from the point of view of a woman whose husband is an inconsiderate drunkard, who also cruises looking for prostitutes. She is afraid of him. The poem reminds us that marriage is not always a happy state. Far from it.

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