A. E. Housman seems to be a very morbid man. As one reads this poem, an interesting image pops into the brain. Lieutenant-Colonel Mary Jane was a woman who was standing on the station platform at a train station. For some reason or another, Mary Jane fell from the platform and onto the tracks. She seems to have fallen right before a train pulled through the station. At this happening, all Mary Jane could utter was the word “Hallelujah!”. After she ha