'Explication on a poem by Blanche Farley Essay\r'

'The human mind is in a constant state of flux. More so, a char’s. Blanche Farley’s The Lover not Taken, beautifully captures the oscillate moods of a woman in and out sexual love, and lends a very daring outrageous image of a woman’s mind. ‘The buffer not taken’, in the career of the woman in Farley’s poem would be the signifi set upt choice do in a woman’s life †one that decides her character, her destiny. In this, it is as significant as ‘The Road not Taken’. The poem is a beautiful play of comparison and contrast of survey and feeling, of idealism versus realism, the heart and the mind.\r\nAll alone, Farley’s Madame Bovary waits in time, left to herself. The woman, already bound and claimed in nuptials, caught in turmoil, stands pondering at the crossroads, on the verge of fully grown in to the charms of her new-found suave rooter’s endearing hair and grinning Unhappy in a marriage, a wom an’s heart is unchained, becalm seeking love. Having found it, the temptation to infidelity looms large. to date the sensitive niche, in which a woman places herself, prevents her from better-looking herself freely a means to her feelings.\r\nHer hating to face the sensitive situation, compliments not to displease her husband nor her lover, yet affectingly wanting(p) to have the cake and eat it, †the vagaries of a woman are picturesquely portrayed. Mulling and wanting, weighing the outcomes of from each one decision, it is not until the last two tracks of the poem, that the mood of the booster is actually decided. It appears as if she were her own judge, laying before herself the facts and reasons over which of the two men she would choose and why, and how.\r\nStructurally, all line of the poem ends in a pause, a change of mood, a dilemma. The end of every line assumes the consequence of its own course. Are the smiles of her charming lover more endearing than solemn promises of her husband, which he wears in his wedding ring? Guilt-ridden, she does admit her husband is thence true to her. Yet, what of her love? Awaiting a twist of destiny, expecting a ‘way leading on to a way’, she hopes to find happiness in her love. Hoping for her love to happen her some day, well knowing the grave consequences of adultery, she let loose a sigh of lament.\r\nThe irresolute, hesitant nature of purpose is reflected through the juxtaposition of words like ‘mulling’ and ‘wanting’. Her desire is more for, her lover’s ‘smile’ than her husband’s ‘claim’. She imagines if her blonde lover ‘dropped by some day’, she wonders in precaution if her husband, having known about her affair, ‘would ever come can’. Her need to stay in a marriage is very strong, when she tries to think ahead in time, some(prenominal) years away, when she would be recounting her tale to someone, and rejoice at how loyal a wife she had remained.\r\nIt is yet the security of a marriage and a lieu, which can subconsciously provide her such a unchanging thought. How finally primordial instincts win over incorrupt values is captured as a conclusion to the poem. ineffective to give up either her marriage or love, the woman decides to play it safe, both in love and marriage. It is very ironical that the poem begins with the word ‘ affiliated’. Is the woman really committed to the one who has a claim on her?\r\nThe frail-minded woman torn amidst her lover and husband becomes ready to turn into an steep adulteress towards the end of the poem! To reach home and call the lover marks the culmination of this collar turnabout. To enjoy both the comfort of home and the heart, is a secret she alone would know and unflinchingly cherish! passim the poem, there is a heavy sense of self-condemnation and regret, and perennial guilt. She finds no peace wit h any of her feelings. work Cited â€Å"Road Not Taken: Analysis”. 19 May 2010. MegaEssays. com <http://www. megaessays. com/viewpaper/474. html>.\r\n'