Pain In The Wife's Lament
In the “Wife’s Lament”, the woman was abandoned by her husband, but she still believed that her husband would change his mind and get her back. The woman’s pain is that she has no control of her own life. She cried that “the lack of my lord seizes me cruelly here. Friends there are on earth living beloved lying in bed while I at dawn am walking alone under the oak tree through these earth halls”. The woman in the “Wife’s Lament” is full of pain because she was forced to leave her husband. She was forced to leave her happy life and had to live in a dark and lonely place without her love ones. At the same time, she is having the fantasy of his husband would come back to her, showing her pure love for the husband. She comforted herself that “My