The collection’s final poems— Wish , North-West , and Death and the Moon —shift to a quieter, more somber, and deeply personal register. These elegiac poems face the truths of love, loss, regret, and mortality that are inescapable in any woman's life. They give a secular redefinition to the "last rites," acknowledging the graves of "ruined loves, unborn children, ghosts".
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