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Modern Love

            In the sonnet Modern Love, George Meredith explains a funeral-taking place. What makes this apparent is when he speaks of a tomb and people being sad and crying. Meredith, in this sonnet, seems to be telling a tale of a man whose wife has just passed and the sadness that has been brought about as a result. The speaker of this sonnet is most likely the husband in question because towards the end Meredith talks about "the dead years" which would seem to indicate the years gone by. Then "vain regret" which seems to tell the reader that there were things that possibly were not resolved between the two and now it is too late. In the last lines of the sonnet, Meredith mentions a sword. The sword that would most likely be used to sever all ties and makes the pain and loneliness drift away. Then the "pale drug of silence" would be a way of saying death has overcome. The other figures of speech Meredith uses seem to want to invoke images of people be it family of friends standing over the person who is dead and trying to now fathom life without this person and at the same time remember the time spent with this person. For those reasons, I would suggest that this sonnet is taking place in a funeral home or possibly at a gravesite. The only word however that would allude to that is the word tomb which Meredith uses with marriage which would infer that the tomb is a family burial plot and the man's wife was the first to die.
            


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