further by raising the question, as good elegies often do, of the elegist's role. The narrator claims to have "no rights" in this "matter"--a punning euphemism--but at the poem's end, his unauthorized speaking at the graveside ("I . . ./Neither father nor lover"), his bravura act of remembrance, would seem to matter more to him than Jane herself. The rest, it would seem, is far from being silence.[by Theodore Roethke]
Elegy for Jane
(My student, thrown by a horse)
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Elegy for Jane
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