otional movement that people undergo when a loved one dies is analogous to the movement into the literal grave. Friends make pretense of following to the grave, But before one is in it, their minds are turned And making the best of their way back to life (108-109). This movement from the grave to the living is what Amy seems to say mirrors the movement that her husband has made, but she goes on to say But the worlds evil (110). This is an indication that Amy sees her husbands inability to accept the grief that accompanies the death of a child and his return to things they understand is evil and unacceptable to her. The final movement comes in Amys decision to finally take her need for emotional fulfillment and understanding elsewhere. After Amy has said it all, her husband says that you feel better. You wont go now. (112-113). Amy, however, has already begun to open the door. Emotionally, Amy is already far beyond her husband, yet to reconcile these feelings within herself she needs these to be realized fully by someone else and not simply think the talk is all(116). From her previous comment about mans inability to do this, the reader may gather that her outward movement will be towards other women, especially those who have lost a child and may share her pain as well. Neither the reader nor her husband, however, are allowed to know Where do you mean to go?(119), but in keeping with the rest of the poem, that is a plausible conclusion. The reader can infer from She was opening the door wider(118), and the fact that she does not tell her husband where she is going, even though the conclusion is left with somewhat of an empty threat from her husband of Ill follow and bring you back by force. I will! , that all there is here is an empty threat, because he can not follow her to the emotional space where she is going. Whether she escapes physically is left up to the reader, but the inference here is that of both an emot...
