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Essay / Analysis of “The Albatross of Kate Bass and Ever After”
The situations are not similar in the storyline, but equal in the tone of the poem. The authors show the breakdown of a relationship through the pain of separation and the loss of a partner. Sometimes we face difficult situations and learn to survive bad outcomes with courage. Ideal and desired love turned into regret and depression. The romanticized concept of eternal love is broken with separation: "[t]he myth of marriage goes something like this: somewhere out there is the perfect soul mate, the yin that fits easily and effortlessly with your yang. And then there is the reality of marriage which, as any spouse knows, is reminiscent of what Thomas Edison said about genius: 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration” (Kantrowitz and Wingert). Sharing love and joy, when you begin a relationship, does not provide the answers to all the questions if in the end the love leaves and you seek to turn the page. The memory of what they once had cannot replace the bitterness of what they have left, after all. In the end, it turns out that it's not what we expected. The butterflies fly away, leaving