Question

Read the poem below and answer the question that follows.

"Ashes of Life" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike;
Eat I must, and sleep I will, - and would that night were here!
But ah! - to lie awake and hear the slow hours strike!
Would that it were day again! - with twilight near!

Love has gone and left me and I don't know what to do;
This or that or what you will is all the same to me;
But all the things that I begin I leave before I'm through, -
There's little use in anything as far as I can see.

Love has gone and left me, - and the neighbors knock and borrow,
And life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse, -
And to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow
There's the little street and this little house.

How do the poem and The Sweet Hereafter deal with loss in a similar way?

Answer 1

the current state of the continent most likely to be the first time in America is the liberty

Answer 2

Both the poem and The Sweet Hereafter deal with the loss by seeing it as painful, but that will not stop life from continuing.

Step-by-step explanation:

The poem shown above shows the process that involves an individual who has lost a loved one. This individual feels strong pain, discouragement, a certain impatience, sadness and melancholy, but he knows that tomorrow will not stop coming because of that, and tomorrow will always bring everything new allowing life to continue.

This feeling is similar in The Sweet Hereafter, where an accident on the school bus causes the death of most children, leaving a melancholy, sad and discouraged population that few overcomes this huge loss.