Claudia Emerson was a southern girl from Virginia. While in Virginia, she ran a used book store in Danville(Langer).She always had an interest in writing, but didn’t become inspired to write until she read books by Rainer Maria Rilke and May Sarton. The bookstore is where she spent some of her time writing. Later, she perfected her writing by attending the University of Virginia, where she eventually graduated with a bachelor 's degree in English. She later died from colon cancer. In the poem, “My Grandmother’s Plot in the Family Cemetery,” by Claudia Emerson, the speaker lets her emotions cloud her vision. Also, her emotions are getting in the way of her forming a new relationship with her husband. This is also shown in many of her other
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Blank verse is shown through the whole poem. None of the lines rhyme. The poem is written in a form of a letter that she wrote to her husband. Elegy is the main focus of the poem. For example, the speaker says, “ he made my grandmother a young widow to no one’s surprise” (Milne 154). This signifies the death of the speaker’s grandfather. The speaker also says, “ My grandmother, as though by her own design removed, is buried in the corner, outermost plot, with no one near..” (Milne 154). This signifies the death of the speaker’s grandmother. Repetition is used to signify who the poem is about. The poem is about the grandmother. “ Grandmother”, is repeated in every other line in the first stanzas. Imagery is used to describe the characteristics of the grandmother’s headstone. For example, the speaker says, “ and at that she could be daughter or pitied, sister, one of those who never married” (Milne 155). This describes that her headstone will just say she is a sister and a daughter. The headstone will not have loving wife like other headstones have. “ A Second Wife”, will also not be on the headstone. Imagery is also used to describe where the grandmother is buried. For example, the speaker says, “.. as though by her own design removed, is buried in the corner, outermost plot, with no one near..” (Milne 154). This means that the grandmother chose to be buried by herself, in the corner, with no one around her. I think that this also portrays the feelings that the grandmother had. She always felt like an outsider and like she didn’t
Blank verse is shown through the whole poem. None of the lines rhyme. The poem is written in a form of a letter that she wrote to her husband. Elegy is the main focus of the poem. For example, the speaker says, “ he made my grandmother a young widow to no one’s surprise” (Milne 154). This signifies the death of the speaker’s grandfather. The speaker also says, “ My grandmother, as though by her own design removed, is buried in the corner, outermost plot, with no one near..” (Milne 154). This signifies the death of the speaker’s grandmother. Repetition is used to signify who the poem is about. The poem is about the grandmother. “ Grandmother”, is repeated in every other line in the first stanzas. Imagery is used to describe the characteristics of the grandmother’s headstone. For example, the speaker says, “ and at that she could be daughter or pitied, sister, one of those who never married” (Milne 155). This describes that her headstone will just say she is a sister and a daughter. The headstone will not have loving wife like other headstones have. “ A Second Wife”, will also not be on the headstone. Imagery is also used to describe where the grandmother is buried. For example, the speaker says, “.. as though by her own design removed, is buried in the corner, outermost plot, with no one near..” (Milne 154). This means that the grandmother chose to be buried by herself, in the corner, with no one around her. I think that this also portrays the feelings that the grandmother had. She always felt like an outsider and like she didn’t