At what point in the poem does the speaker shift from language that represents the way the woman might have talked about herself to language that reveals how the speaker judges her? Point out examples of both kinds of language.
This shift occurs in the fifth stanza where he tells the reader just how miserable she is. The first four stanzas she's this amazing girl that all the guys want and she is wealthy and smart. She rejected many men and, "impoverished marquis," which meant she made noblemen poor. Than in the fifth stanza she loses everything. Her kid is dead along with her husband and she basically has nothing to do anymore. She doesn't have any friends and she's lonely and just seems to be going in circles so she is not getting anywhere.
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