Journal 52: Hopes?

No, the hope in this poem of wanting her man to come back early is fairly common in literature. I can understand the hope and despair that she is experiencing.However, it does feels really pessimistic and give the feeling of how   she will never see the man coming back. Of all the stanzas, only 1 of them have a optimistic view where his coming back quite soon. The other stanzas stretches the time longer and longer and the descriptions becomes desperate. She'll wind the months into balls and slowly knit them or something. This is like saying i have to finish all these yarns, do you know how long its going to take to use up one yarn? Then the next thing comes where she say she will count until her fingers drop. The idea of the motion and endless time just pains me and how i feel if i have to wait for someone like that. Next, she mentions Ven Dieman land. This bazarre and exotic place off in the sea is somewhere a guy will mostly likely never be back, or until you are 70 years old and you finally got a message that he died. The last one basically mean i will see you in the next life, hopefully. The amount of time and the possibility of meeting again is tiny unless you are so destined to be together. I feel the despair and the sorrow in the whole poem. I cannot imagine by most cherished and loved one to leave me off like this to some far away place.