Questions which provoke yet provide the most intangible answers. I sense, and this is only an exploratory attempt to interpret the poem, that this widow lady is perhaps the wife of a sailor long lost to the cruel sea. Or perhaps a lonely woman contemplating ways in which to end it all. Like all good blank verse, questions are posed and the reader has to come to his own conclusions.
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Questions which provoke yet provide the most intangible answers. I sense, and this is only an exploratory attempt to interpret the poem, that this widow lady is perhaps the wife of a sailor long lost to the cruel sea. Or perhaps a lonely woman contemplating ways in which to end it all. Like all good blank verse, questions are posed and the reader has to come to his own conclusions.