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. select the best answer from the choices provided a b c d

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.

it the climax in the poem

i believe the answer is: b. mr. head had a long, tube-like face with a rounded open jaw and a short depressed nose.

this is because in the un-revised sentence it said that mr. heads face was long and tube-like, and he had a rounded open jaw. this is not a very grammatically correct because of how it seems to drag on with the and, replaced with, with, makes it sound more fluent in the description.