Lowell's Patterns

Most people live their lives in a pattern. Some people trudge to their daily jobs, while others trot off to school. These patterns, however, can be easily broken by an interruption in one's daily ritual. An example of this is Amy Lowell's "Patterns". The patterns followed by the woman in Lowell's story, are unexpectedly brought to an end with the tragedy of her lover's death. This poem contains several patterns. There is a pattern in …

…of her dress, the tears she sheds for her lover, and the garden she paces through each day give the reader a sense of this woman's incompleteness. Lowell also shows how these patterns are destroyed. The one event of the lover's death caused the once hopeful patterns to be useless. We all follow patterns in our own lives. Most of these patterns, however, will constantly need changing for the rest of our lives ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**