Monologue

Nanny Monologue from The Land of Heart's Desire

From The Land of Heart's Desire by W.B. Yeats

female · anguished · 58 sec

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I partly guessed death was near him, and the queer shining look he had in his two eyes, and he throwing sparks east and west through the beams. I wonder now was it some inward wound he got, or did some hardy lad of the Brownes give him a tip on the skull unknownst in the fight? It was I myself found him, and the troop of the Whiteboys gone, and he lying by the side of a wall as weak as if he had knocked a mountain. I failed to waken him trying him with the sharpness of my nails, and his head fell back when I moved it, and I knew him to be spent and gone.

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Nanny reflects on the death of a man she found, grappling with the circumstances of his demise and her inability to revive him.

40s · sadness · death · loss · isolation · conflict

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