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Beer first published "The Lost Woman" in 1982 in the London Review of Books, before later including it in her 1983 collection The Lie of the Land. The poem draws on Beer's real life: Beer lost her mother to cancer when she was just 14. Read the full text of “The Lost Woman”.
- First Stanza
- Second Stanza
- Third Stanza
- Fourth Stanza
- Fifth Stanza
- Sixth Stanza
Beer starts her poem by informing her readers that a mother had lost her life quite suddenly. The character who is voicing the poem came home from school one day to witness an ambulance leaving from the front of her house; that is how unexpected the incident was. The diction in this stanza gives a lot away about the emotions the narrator has packed...
In the second stanza of ‘The Lost Woman’, it is expressed to the readers that the mother never came home after the ambulance took her away, and the narrator “never saw her buried”. She thinks of her mother often and knows she cannot ever be in her company again. The daughter continues to place blame on her mother by claiming that “she never returne...
The third stanza reveals that the narrator viewed her mother’s marriage as one of frustration and lifelessness. It is also explained that her mother used to run “a canteen” for many years and was an intelligent woman, who was also involved in getting an education part-time. This section of the poem shows the reader that the daughter felt like she k...
In this stanza of ‘The Lost Woman’, the narrator speaks about the fact that every poet has “a lost woman” that “haunts the home”; so the topic of the loss and emptiness will always be more captivating no matter how many inspiring heroesthere are at the time. This idea really highlights the grief the daughter truly feels. She emphasizes that althoug...
Stanza five discusses a softer, more tender image of the narrator’s mother. She is described as kind, gentle, and a great loss to those who were around her. This stanza really promotes that yearning of the daughter that we noticed in the previous stanzas. She eloquently points out that her mother was very kind and soft, but also tactfully counterac...
In this last stanza, we realize that the narrator considers her inner voice as the lost woman, who feels unloved by the mother who left her so suddenly. The daughter reveals that her “lost woman snaps from somewhere else”; signifying that the voice of the woman who is lost belongs to herself and it is screaming out for attention, claiming not to be...
A lost woman to haunt the home, To be compensated and desired, Who will not alter, who will not grow, A corpse they need never get to know. She is nearly always benign. Her habit Is not to stride at dead of night. Soft and crepuscular in rabbit-Light she comes out. Hear how they hate Themselves for losing her as they did.
14. Jan. 2024 · An unusual simile - that hops away like a rainbow - conjures up a sort of magical image. "The Lost Woman" is an elegy and focuses on grief, family love and a daughter's loss. But there is also mystery and tension. The death of a mother is never easy to handle. Subtle and powerful poem.
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15. Feb. 2016 · 'The Lost Woman' By Patricia Beer, Annotated - YouTube. GES English Department. 837 subscribers. Subscribed. 88. 16K views 8 years ago IGCSE Poems 2016. This is an annotated version of the...
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