Ethan Frome Poem about Zeena. Critiques? Do you get what its saying?Your comments are much appreciated.
Did each and every breath I craved constitute life?
Did I ever truly live?
Was I ever really loved?
No. It is simple.
I was afflicted with one terrible sickness after another,
Never able to thoroughly enjoy life.
Never able to give full attention to my failing marriage.
Almost too consumed to see what was going on.
All he saw was a living, walking, talking corpse,
There was no love or affection,
Only resentment to tie our lonely hearts together.
And he saw her, the harlot... my family.
He loved her, as he was never capable of loving me.
As I never knew he could love.
It seems a shame just thinking of the tragedy.
But I roll laughing in my grave knowing what they once had dreamed,
Can never be.
2007-03-18 16:37:51 · 4 answers · asked by gravytrain036 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Oh, sorry its supposed to be an epitaph for Zenna Fromme in the book Ethan Fromme, the teacher said it had to be sixteen lines at least and no rhyimg and that's what I'm struggling with... too many restrictions
2007-03-18 16:48:53 · update #1
Each Breath I craved
Truly lived
Was I loved
No
Afflicted
Joyless suffering
my reward a feckless union
which consumed all lightness
A loveless corpse hearts
bound by resentment
the harlot my family
loved as one who could never see
the soul in me
2007-03-18 16:58:52 · answer #1 · answered by Stan B 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No clue what your talking about, and generally, you keep the stanzas the same length.
2007-03-18 23:42:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
it jumps all over the place, there is no flow at all, and what r u talking about?
2007-03-18 23:46:26 · answer #3 · answered by Time is of the Essence 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
pretty good
2007-03-18 23:47:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋