One Night

One Night by Ann Gray

An Elegy Analysis by Karl V.


The poem “One Night” by Ann Gray is an example of elegy or a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament of the dead. As expected, the mood of the poem is sadness and sympathy. The poem is about a woman who has produced a great imagination about her dead husband due to her grief.


The character includes the woman, the husband, Nick and Beth, all in one setting (in the bedroom where the woman imagines the scenes).  


The first stanza of the poem is somewhat a random presumption of what will it be like when her husband suddenly comes home after a very long time. Of course, that makes the reader think that the poem is only a reflection. Moreover, the following stanzas give the readers the feeling of being extremely strange. The fact that the scenes evolving out of the poem was of a big question from a good deal of little confusion that makes them think of something that is really bizarre. The content of the poem, by stanza, will let the readers know that the husband is really struggling with the current time he's in. That he's confused about everything that's going on and wonders a lot about the little big changes which he prolly doesn't even notice changing before. At the end of the poem the woman assumed that her husband will ask her what happen and so, she supposed to reply this line, “So how long have you got”. Only then the readers will realize that the man in the poem is a ghost and thus, the poem is an elegy.

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