Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Model

In 1969, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross released her book On Death and Dying (1). She interviewed many terminally ill patients and through her observations she developed the Kubler-Ross model which recognized five stages of grieving. Through the years, she and other therapists have accepted and added additional steps. They developed the Seven Stages of Grieving. These stages include shock and disbelief, denial, anger, bargaining, guilt, depression and acceptance. Later on in her work, Kubler-Ross applied these steps not only for the dying but for anyone going through any personal loss such as the death of a loved one or loss of an amorous relationship which we will show. The first stage of the Seven Stages of Grieving is shock and disbelief. This is when the griever is first …show more content…
His moist hour means he is crying for her and wants her to come back to him. When he says that he will “raise my song to you,” he implies that if she comes back to him, he will praise and worship her. In the guilt stage, he mentions “Ah woman, I do not know how you could contain me in the earth of your soul, in the cross of your arms.”(29) He knows that he was hard to be with at times. He gives a sense of regret for being “difficult and drunken.”(32) The poem mostly exhibit’s the depression stage. He is at the wharf and he notices that everything is going away. The birds are migrating and the boats have left. He feels the abandonment similarly to how she left him. He could be leading up to the acceptance stage. He could be coming to the realization that even though the boats and the birds are no longer around, life goes on. After reading Neruda, I was reminded of the song She’s Gone by Hall and Oates. (5) It has similarities such as, it is unclear if the woman has left him or if she died. Also, he displays the stages of grieving and how he is trying to cope with his