Question

In “The Wife’s Lament,” the wife assumes her husband is now a. on an exciting adventure and does not think of her. b. on his way home for a reconciliation. c. married to someone else. d. melancholy, as she is. Please select the best answer from the choices provided A B C D

Answer 1

In “The Wife’s Lament,” the wife assumes her husband is now melancholy, as she is.

“The Wife's Lament” is an elegy in which a wife laments over her life in exile away from her husband, friends, and family. The Kingsmen plotted against the wife and the husband which led to their separation. The wife was exiled and in her exile, she laments her separation from her husband whom she loved compassionately. She is regarded as dead by her husband and her tribe. The wife laments over her fortune and considers death as the only medium which will separate her from her husband. She wishes that after her death her husband would feel sorrow and grief. She wants him to remember all the good times and moments that they spent together.