Comentry on the poem "The affliction of margaret".

... "The affliction of Margaret" by William Wordsworth tells the story of Margaret, a woman who has lost her son, and she hasn't seen him for 7 years. The poem is a lament, which expresses all of Margaret's feelings and anxieties as the poem progresses; she imagines all the possible horrible fates, which her son may have faced. Overall, the poem captures the universal fear any parent would feel if their child was missing. This poem makes the fact that she thinks her son is dead really stand out by placing lines in the poem that are a kind of question of whether her son is dead or not "if the grave be now your bed" which is clearly an indication of whether he is dead or not, she is saying that if he is dead then the coffin, grave is his bed. She say's in this poem that she was never ashamed

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