Tone 5: The Apparition

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This poem has an eerie sense to it. The speaker seems to have been murdered by a former lover. In a source  of revenge, the man is going to haunt his murderess while she sleeps. "And that thou thinkst thee free," displays the mans intent to haunt and torture the woman's mind. "Bathed in a cold quicksilver sweat," implies that the woman will suffer from the mans ghostly presence. By killing the man, she thought she would be rid of him. She never thought he would come back to haunt her when she is with other men at night. Through the line, "wilt lie a verier ghost than I," shows that the man is willing to go to extraordinary measures to get back at this woman. He wants her to suffer more than he did. I wonder what this man did for the woman to murder him and why he so diligently seeks revenge.