Les Murray’s “The Widower in the Country” Essay

In The Widower in the country, change is conveyed in mevery a(prenominal) ways. The poem shows that change can bring a look of isolation and loneliness. The poem in any case shows how change is not always embraced and how we should not return a life with a lack of change.The title of the poem, the widowman in the country immediately gives the reader the impression of an individual in a vast area. This lets the readers k to mean solar day that the widower is alone and iso easyd. Already, the reader already feels kindliness for the widower, not only because he has lost his wife, but he now lives alone in a vast and empty area.In the rootage stanza, the first line, Ill get up soon, and leave my write out undo, shows how the persona leads a life that is monotonous and repetitive each day. on that point is a certainty and reluctance in his tone and it seems as though he now has no reason to make his bed, as he is lonely and there is no one who will see the bed correct if it wa s made. At the end of the stanza, For I get up late now, the word now has been deliberately placed to show how the widower has changed his behaviour.In the second stanza, the personification of Christmas paddocks, achy in the heat, imitates the personas make feelings, and the words aching in the heart look like aching in the heart, which is what the persona feels like, as he has lost his wife. Christmas is also unremarkably a term for family gathering, and this highlights how change has caused the widower to lead a life of loneliness and isolation. This stanza is also filled with negative flickry and mundane activities- The calm trees, the nettles in the yard and then Ill go in, boil wet and make tea. The at the end of the sentence shows that the widowers day is filled with former(a) activities that are more or the same, again highlighting his life that has a lack of change. The lack of punctuation in this stanza also reflects the widowers monotonous life and again shows how change can bring a life of isolation and loneliness.In the third stanza, there is again a lack of punctuation. Ill stand out on the hill and esteem my house away below, and how the chapiter reflects the.There is a certainty in the widowers tone and the detached images show he doesnt want to be in this situation. Makes my eyes water gives us an image of the widower in misery and crying and we feel sympathy for him. This also shows he has not embraced the change. Close on bright webbed visions smeared on the dark of my thoughts to dance and fade away shows how the persona has visions and memories of the past.There is a paradox between bright and smeared and this reflects the personas misery. Although he wishes to call in of the happier times in the past, they exhaust now become blurred and have faded away. Then the sun will move on shows the widowers sorrow and I will simply watch, or work, or sleep is a cumulative listing of three monotonous and mundane activities, which highli ghts the lack of frame in the widowers life. The sentence also shows how the monotony is never-ending. In And in timeing will come on the and is placed at the shekels of the sentence to draw attention to how the widower is so certain round his life as it is always the same, day after day.In the hold up stanza, Getting near dark, Ill go home, light the lamp and eat my corned-beef supper, posing there at the head of the postpone shows how the widowers day is filled with even more mundane activities and his reluctance to make any changes. The fact that he is sitting at the head of a table highlights his loneliness, as he has no family, and is by himself. Then Ill go to bed again shows the certainty in his tone and his lack of change. ratiocination night I thought I dreamed is the only time there is a change in tense and harsh sounding images- the screaming was only a possum ski-ing down the iron roof follows it. The widower has lost all hope as he cannot even dream and has nothi ng positive to look forward to, not even in his dreams. The poem ends with its only positive image little dreamy claws.With uses of imagery, personification, paradox, assonance and cumulative listing, Les Murrays The Widower in the Country distinctly shows how change can lead to a life of isolation and loneliness.