“If aught she missed in her new day
Of amplitude, or awe,
Or first prospective, or the gold
In using wore away…”(Dickson)
This stanza from Emily Dickson’s poem “The Wife”, can be depicted as an example of Mrs. Mallard’s emotional state towards her husband’s false death in the story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin. An example quote from Chopin’s story, reveals Mallard’s emotional state about her husband’s death, “And yet she had loved him — sometimes. Often, she had not. What did it matter!” (Chopin) In comparison to Dickson’s stanza and Millard’s emotional state, both give an exemplified perspective process of being a wife. However, in Chopin’s story, Millard’s thought of her husband’s death as freedom for her new independence. In Dickson stanza from “The wife” gives a different perspective in her stanza as if being in a marriage prevents independence.
2 thoughts on “J D Lancaster (Discussion 9)”
Hey J.D.,
First things first, I really love how you applied your creativity by starting with a direct quote from the passage here. It grasped my attention from the start and encouraged me to continue reading and select your writing to review. Given that the response was creative, I feel as if you could have focused more on answering the question asked at hand which was, “Discuss how the theme of the Emily Dickinson poem “The Wife” relates to Mrs. Mallard’s emotional state in “The Story of an Hour.”. In your response, you really only focused on answering the question in your own words with one sentence.
I can agree. I have reread my comment and missed out on the theme.