Name: Sittie Ainnah B. Macatingkie Instructor: Mrs. Crishel V.

Pugoy

Program & Section: BSED-3B Course: Lit 6

A Wife Mourns For Her Husband

By: Confucius

The dolichos grows and covers the thorn, a sharp pointed woody extension of a stem or leaf

· A genus of herbaceous or sometimes shrubby leguminous plants.

O'er the waste is the dragon-plant creeping.

The man of my heart is away and I mourn--

What home have I, lonely and weeping?

Covering the jujubes the dolichos grows,

The graves many dragon-plants cover; the act or utterance of one who warns.

But where is the man on whose breast I'd repose?

No home have I, having no lover!

The “I” refers to the point of view of the wife.

Fair to see was the pillow of horn,

And fair the bed-chamber's adorning; Imagery

But the man of my heart is not here, and I mourn

All alone, and wait for the morning.

While the long days of summer pass over my head,

And long winter nights leave their traces,

I'm alone! Till a hundred of years shall have

And then I shall meet his embraces.

Through the long winter nights I am burdened with fears,

Through the long summer days I am lonely; Anaphora

But when time shall have counted its hundreds of years

I then shall be his--and his only!

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Poem Encyclopedia (2019) “A Wife Mourns for her Husband”. https://www.best-

poems.net/confucius/wife-mourns-her-husband.html

The poem was created by the famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist in China known

as Confucius. It was given emphasized the emotion of the wife due to the absence of her

husband. The poem depicts the real feelings of being inlove, longing and mourning for the

presence of the husband. The author form the poem in a structured manner due to the reasons

that there are stanzas that has a similar rhyme, rhythm, and length which made the poem pleasing

to the readers. As we delved in to the deep meaning of the poem, we can state that the poem was

consist of a dark, downhearted, and sorrowful situation of a wife who was grieving for her

husband. The Author used imagery in describing the bed as an empty without the existence of

her husband and the place was not the same anymore due to the fact the she is alone and lonely.

The main theme of the poem was true love, pain, and grief because the poem conveyed that
seasons had passed, their home was not a home because she is alone. In addition, the word

through was being used twice in which the author used anaphora as a literary device. It was a

first person’s point of view which highlighted the side of the persona. The Mood of the poem

was gloomy which expressed the hurtful situation and enduring moments of a wife without the

embrace of her husband. Additionally, the author utilized literary devices, figurative language,

and structured form of poem to have a great impact to the readers.