She then speaks of her grass and how it "flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes around me this year- (4-6). ... Through her despair, the widow continues to describe that which surrounds her; while doing this "she dwells on the literal and the obvious, pointing out the colors of different bushes for instance, which gives us the sense of her being adrift emotionally and intellectually- (Harvey 49). ... In line twenty the widow mentions a story her son told her, probably in a desperate yet futile attempt to lift his mother from the mire of her grief. ... It i...

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