poetry help? Letitia Landon's "Revenge"?
In the third stanza of Landon's poem, "Revenge":
'Tis well: I am revenged at last,--
Mark you that scornful cheek,--
The eye averted as you pass'd,
Avenged they well may be--
Is there anyone that can give me a quick analysis? Just to help me understand the mood and tone she's trying to hint at.
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Basic situation:
The woman got dumped by her lover for a new lover (the blonde woman in stanzas one and two).
Now, though, the blonde has dumped the guy. She can tell this from the way the two now behave around each other: the [blonde's] "scornful cheek" and "the [blonde's] eye averted as you [the guy] pass [the blonde]"
So she's eating this all up.
Just as she was dumped before -- as she wept and pleaded -- so the guy who dumped her is doing now.