An Analysis Of Tell The Wolves I M Home By Carol Rifka Brunt

Carol Rifka Brunt, a novelist, once wrote, “Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.” This quote can be located inside of Brunt’s novel Tell the Wolves I’m Home. This novel is a heart wrenching story about love and grief. June Elbus and her uncle were very close, in fact he is the only one that understood her, until he passed away. This caused her a large amount of grief and heartache; until one day she received a letter and package from someone who misses her uncle just as much as she does. It is hard to love someone and then lose them, but what is even harder

At the beginning of the poem, in the first two stanzas the language used is focused more towards the auditor of the poem. This is shown in the use of questions and how the second line of each stanza ends with saying that the auditor cannot move or win her. The focus of the poem shifts in the third stanza.. In the third stanza the language is more focused towards the woman of interest. This shift is evident because the speaker is discussing the logical solution but also incorporating the lady. The repetition of the word “her” in this stanza makes it evident that the lady is the main focus of the stanza. This shift in language helps to convey the theme of the poem. The shift of focus and language in the third stanza is to show how the lady does not love the auditor back. If she decides not to love him back, the no one can make her. This is what the speaker is trying to tell the

To go through life loving someone that does not love you back is hard. However the speaker is definitely right, sometimes it is just better for everyone involved if the person justs moves on. Love, and unrequited love has been the basis for many great works of art in the world today. This theme is not only present in poems but it many novels and movies that can be found today. Many authors such as William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens have used this theme in at least one of their works. Without the tragedy of unrequited love in the world there would not be many novels because no one would know what this is like since they would not have experienced it to be able to write accurately about it. The theme of this poem is undeniably important in the real world. In the real world not everyone will return your feelings towards them. That is one thing that people need to learn how to deal with and the speaker of the poem is entirely correct for telling the auditor to do that exact thing, move