"The Wife's Lament" is a medieval piece of poetry full of sadness. The speaker in the poem is a woman hose husband has been sent out of his land leaving his wife unprotected, who "was told to live in an earth-cave beneath an oak tree amid the forest". The absence of her beloved husband and the lack of company make her say at the beginning of the poem that: "Endlessly I have suffered the wretchedness of exile." Accordingly, based on her context it is accurate to say that a terrible feeling of loneliness is what best describes her daily life.
I believe the correct answer from the choices listed above is option B. <span>The daily life of the author of "The Wife's Lament" can best be described as lonely. I guess you can already sense the loneliness from the title itself having the word lament. Hope this helps.</span>
<span>Antithesis is a counter-proposition and denotes a direct contrast to the original proposition. An example of antithesis in "The Crisis" is what we attain too cheap we esteem too lightly.
Bilbo took his final stand on Ravenhill among the elves. He also preferred to defend the Elvenking. Bard and Thorin agreed that Thorin would give a portion of his treasure to bard and the Elvenking in exchange for the Arkenstone.
