A Woman Trapped in a Slaves Body

There is only one way to interpret Tess Gallagher's poem "I Stop Writing the Poem", as a desperate cry of loneliness and despair. Gallagher's words and the sadness which lies behind them, and the deeper, darker implications that are demonstrated in her melancholy words both aid in proving the isolation of the subject. The true wretchedness that lies within "I Stop Writing the Poem," is the fact that the woman in the poem is confined to a life in which she is never truly happy; her life's purpose is to please her husband, and this leaves her in a deserted state of mind.

The delivery of the poem, gives confirmation that the narrator is meant to appear lonely. T...

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