Charlotte Smith

I would like to focus on the last two lines of Charlotte Smith’s Sonnet “XLIV”.
“While I am doom’d-by life’s long storm opprest,
To gaze with envy, on their gloomy rest (Smith 153).”

It seems to me that Smith wants the release of death because she is deeply depressed. Smith may have situational depression as we discussed in class Smith is a single mother and struggling to survive on her writing. I am sure she was exhausted. Sleep deprivation alone is enough to make someone depressed. We discussed the idea that Smith is looking to write about what causes of depression. Speaking to that, in my opinion, abundant usage of negative language can cause depression. The few poems I read of Smith’s appear to use low vibrating language even when referring something positive. For example in “Written at the Close of Spring” she writes, “Each simple flower (Smith 144)”, she did not say beautiful flower or amazing flower, just simple. In the above lines Smith is jealous of the deceased’s “gloomy” rest, why gloomy? If one was depressed and exhausted wouldn’t death be a sweet release? It seems many of her words carry a very low vibration and People such as Dr. Wayne Dyer tell us that vibrations of this form attract other vibrations of the same form back to themselves, the idea being what you vibrate you will attract to yourself. Even if Smith was faced with situational depression maybe if she was able to use high vibrating language for the last half of her sonnets or a piece of her sonnets she would be able to start to put a positive spin on her language which may positively impact her thought patterns and maybe she would be able to attract positivity back to herself.
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