Parker's Wail '

As mentioned before, love relationships for Parker was not her forte and for her she felt disillusioned by love. In her poem “Wail” we are introduced to the aftermath of a relationship, a break up. The speaker explains that the relationship she was just in had come to an end and, “Love has gone a-rocketing” (Parker). A post by Tamara Hailstock on Enotes states, “Using ‘a-rocketing’ produces a slightly comic effect because the reader is forced to picture a lover taking off on a rocket” (Hailstock). What’s astonishing is that in the next couple of lines her tone seems to set a casual atmosphere for how she is handling the loss of her love. “That is not the worst; I could do without the thing/ And not be the first/ Joy has gone the way it came/