“The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” is a persona poem like “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. Who is the narrator in the poem? How does the poem illuminate the characteristics of this narrator? What images in the poem demonstrate her state of mind? How is personification used? And, finally, what is the narrative here?

“The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” is a persona poem like “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. Who is the narrator in the poem? How does the poem illuminate the characteristics of this narrator? What images in the poem demonstrate her state of mind? How is personification used? And, finally, what is the narrative here?