Modern_Love

Modern Love In the sonnet Modern Love, George Meredith explains a funeral-taking place. What makes this apparent is when he speaks of a tomb and people being sad and crying. Meredith, in this sonnet, seems to be telling a tale of a man whose wife has just passed and the sadness that has been brought about as a result. The speaker of this sonnet is most likely the husband in question because towards the end Meredith talks about “the dead years” which would seem to indicate the years gone by. Then “vain regret” which seems to tell the reader that there were things that possibly were not resolved between the two and now it is too late. In the last lines of the sonnet, Meredith mentions a sword. The sword that would most likely be used meredith, sonnet, tomb, person, years, word, wife, time, sword, seems, seem, possibly, place, people, now, makes, likely, family, dead, about, without, whose, way, vain, two, trying, towards, ties, things, telling, tell, talks, tale, taking, suggest, standing