The poem, “Joe Lawson’s Wife” by Lorna Crozier

The poem, Joe Lawsons married woman by Lorna crozier is a signically rich work. The poem tells the figment of a man who commits suicide, and how his wife reacts to her maintains death. There is manifest symbolism in both the cheerfulness and milk in the poem. The sun personifies Mrs. Lawsons conscious efforts to absorb and accept the parole of her husbands suicide. She goes from only barely understanding what is going on, and being in hump shock to the realization that her husband is dead fully sinking in. The milk is representative of normalcy in Mrs.Lawsons life-time, and it is the everyday chore of milking the cows that she clings to when her husband dies. The sun plays a significant role in symbolically showing the reader how the news of her husbands death is seize Mrs. Lawson. The sun builds up tension as it rises, symbolically representing her husbands death sinking in as she struggles to accept this morbid news. The for the first time mention of the sun occurs in the middle of the play. The doctor attempts to get Mrs. Lawson to go into the ho go for and away from the gruesome scene of her husband, but she refuses to leave his side.crozier writes, The sun was rising, its splinters from the cracks in the walls falling all around her. In these lines, the sun is representative of the news of her husbands death and the revealing that she is alone. The splinters from the sun, or small beams of set down coming through the cracks of the atomic number 5 show that the news is well(p) starting to sink in, and Mrs. Lawson is only close to aware of what is going on. The sun is referenced again toward the end of the poem, with Crozier telling the reader, The suns bright nails throbbing through. The use of the sun, again, to describe how the death of Mr.Lawson is affecting his wife is symbolic. Whereas when she first saw her husbands body, she was in shock and barely comprehending what had happened, at this point she is fully aware of her husbands de ath, and the realization of this hits her much harder, like nails pounding into her. The references to milk within the poem are also very symbolically significant. The ritual of milking the cows appears to be a common, everyday chore for Mrs. Lawson. For this reason, upon the news of her husbands death, Mrs. Lawson begins milking the cows, almost in a sense of greedy for something normal in her life.The milk is symbolic of the normalcy that Mrs. Lawson had in her life prior to her husbands suicide. After the men have interpreted Mr. Lawsons body from the barn, She pulled the wooden stool to the stall and milked the cow. It is almost as if by milking the cows, Mrs. Lawson is attempting to go back to a time when her husband was unflurried alive. Her complete focus, however, is on his death, as she doesnt even bother to identify a pail under the cow to catch the milk. Mrs. Lawson milks the cows just like she probably did every other day of her life in an attempt to return any sort of normalcy to her now disorganised life.Lorna Croziers poem, Joe Lawsons Wife exhibits two symbolically great elements. The first element is the sun, which represents the news of her husbands suicide sinking into Mrs. Lawsons conscious mind. At first, only a few streaks of light shine though, but by the end of the poem the light is strike her like a nail being pounded into her. The second important symbol in this poem is the milk. The milk is representative of normalcy in Mrs. Lawsons life. Milking the cows is obviously part of her everyday routine, and she clings to this familiar chore in an attempt to return her life to any sort of normal state.