English

Lester

27 December, 00:32

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?