A Death-Scene quotation marks, this could show that Augusta is directly addressing her husband, Edward, as she calls to him with this name. The poem uses frequent references to water: "Arden's lake" in stanza 3, "eternal sea" in stanza 4 and "Eden isles" in stanza 6. This water is most probably Emily referring to the water surrounding Gondal. There are other parts of nature that are touched upon in this poem, primarily in stanza 10, these could showing how Augusta is turning to nature to help her cope with the oncoming and unavoidable grief. The poem describes Augusta's sorrow over her dying
Portrait of a Lady (poem) speaker takes his farewell from the Lady before going abroad; she wonders why they have not become friends, asks him to write to her and describes her melancholy, solitary fate; in the close the speaker thinks of the Lady possibly dying and questions his behavior towards her. Like many of Eliot's early poems, "Portrait of a Lady" shows heavy influence from Jules Laforgue. For example, in 'Another Complaint of my Lord Pierrot', Laforgue has the lines: While Eliot has the lines: Portrait of a Lady (poem) "Portrait of a Lady" is a poem by American-British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965),