He first acknowledges a women figure as a “murd’ress” (1). The poet does not yet present the relationship between the speaker and the woman. The narrator questions the woman if she thinks that she is free from his grasp. He emphasizes that even as a ghost he will come to her after his death, this dramatizes the conflicts and presents how badly this woman has hurt the speaker. Since he isn’t dead yet the reader can interpret that the speaker is plotting how he will punish her in the future. The speaker feels that the woman will never find someone to lover her like he did. The poet stresses on the concept of death using words like “murd’ress” (1), “dead” (1), and “ghost” (4) giving the poem an eerie arrangement. Illustrating that the speaker felt somber about the
He first acknowledges a women figure as a “murd’ress” (1). The poet does not yet present the relationship between the speaker and the woman. The narrator questions the woman if she thinks that she is free from his grasp. He emphasizes that even as a ghost he will come to her after his death, this dramatizes the conflicts and presents how badly this woman has hurt the speaker. Since he isn’t dead yet the reader can interpret that the speaker is plotting how he will punish her in the future. The speaker feels that the woman will never find someone to lover her like he did. The poet stresses on the concept of death using words like “murd’ress” (1), “dead” (1), and “ghost” (4) giving the poem an eerie arrangement. Illustrating that the speaker felt somber about the