The lost woman and stabat mater

stabat mater

the lost woman

personal experience

voice

poet pov

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dead 'i am not dead'

ambigous

you are the ghost

haunting

'dead' 'crepuscular' 'bat'

magical, unreal, naive

i am not lost

fantasy/reality

'tree' 'hops' 'like a rainbow' idealized

juxtaposition unreliable? child - adult limited

mother 'seem so small' 'like a girl'

prosaic --> normal 'oh' 'canteen'

mother

'ivy mother' 'tree'

voice = bitter

daughter 'tendrils' - 'clutch'

mother stands (suffers)

parents' relationship

quatrain --> couplet mother's voice

motif book voice ' '

'stand' --> 'walk away'

independence, childhood/adulthood

distance 3 persons - herself

'his loving life wife'

'Mr Hunt' = distance from him

'your' possessive/ no identity of her own

time 'later' why

'roams old age' 'guids him' - role reversal 'game'