What was the death blow given to the farmer wife in the farmer's wife
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The Farmers Wife Poem is written by Volga which is a pen name of P. Lalita Kumari. The poem expresses the feeling of a peasant’s or farmer's wife who is in despair due to her husband's suicide. The line which says: Me a death blow like this:
It means several times she has confronted atrocities or a death like situation and has undergone death-like experience. She expected her husband might deal with this miserable situation someday rather he committed suicide and made her life worse than death.
In this poem, the farmer is shown to have committed suicide as he could not pay the debts off.
The wife of the farmer accuses her husband due to her frustrations and poor life.
She says he has gone but have left her life poisoned.
The farmer's wife has as if given a death blow by the farmer as he escaped from their poor state leaving the wide helpless and filled with the burden to raise their four kids.