Miss Lloyd Has Now Went to Miss Green
As, on opening the box, may be seen,
Some years of a Black Ploughman's Gauze,
To be made up directly, because
Miss Lloyd must in mourning appear
For the death of a Relative dear--
Miss Lloyd must expect to receive
This license to mourn and to grieve,
Complete, ere the end of the week--
It is better to write than to speak
In this poem, Jane Austen uses a lot of symbolism and indirect ways to say certain things. By research, we know that Miss Green is a dress maker and Austen wrote this as a letter to Miss Lloyd to try to cheer her up because Lloyd's mother had just passed away. The 8th and 9th lines say, "The license to mourn and to grieve, complete ere the end of the week" which shows the time period of how they are only allowed a certain time period for their mourning. In line 2 she says "As, on opening the box, may be seen," which is a symbol for the casket of a dead person at a funeral. It also says "Miss Lloyd must in mourning appear," that word "appear" makes me think that she's not actually sad but she has to look like she is because that is what is expected of her.
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