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 Without Him  [E]
My mother deals with the loss of my father
by Sophy
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Rated: E | (5.0)
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Review of Without Him by Sophy

This kind of review is so hard to do - it feels wrong to comment upon another's deepest feelings. But this poem is so effective in communicating grief that I have to try.

It's beautiful and yet sad, moving and sobering. It makes the reader feel helpless in their inability to do anything to help. So simple are the words and yet how direct and heartfelt. The italicising of the mother's words in the opening to each stanza is so effective in setting the scene. In these simple words a lifetime is present, made full by the words that follow.

Looking just at the italicised lines, we realise that the poem progresses, first as a description of the man's illness and lost strength, then to consideration of the wife's grief and despair. It's a distilling into the essence of a marriage after fifty-three years.

The action that intercedes between the italicised lines is about the love that still cares to the last moments. We do not know what the years have contained but we feel privileged to witness the dying moments of such a bond. It's hard to read, let alone review.

But beautiful, still beautiful in its way. A truly powerful piece.

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