"A profoundly poignant evocation of love and loss" to what extent do you agree with this assessment of Douglas Dunn's elegies.

... "A profoundly poignant evocation of love and loss" to what extent do you agree with this assessment of Douglas Dunn's elegies. Following the death of his wife from cancer, Douglas Dunn chronicled his resulting feelings and emotions in a series of poems entitled 'Elegies'. Essentially this collection reflects on a period of introspection as Dunn comes to terms with her absence. Through the poet's depth and range of emotion feelings of love and loss, ideas that are intrinsically linked, are expressed. Even prior to the death of Dunn's wife there is a profound sense of sadness, primarily due to the inescapability of what is to happen. In 'Thirteen Steps and the Thirteenth of March', which revolves around the days preceding his wife's death, the poet talks of 'my' rather than 'our' "high house." Dunn's sense of general acceptance only goes to highlight his vulnerability and thus heightens the poignancy

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