To be, or not to be, is still the question. After much struggling and loss in love and in the world of man, the protagonist throws in his lot with a woman who is already married. Together they go into another country, she perforce leaving her children behind. The conflict of love and hate goes on between the man and the woman, and between these two and the world around them, till it reaches some sort of conclusion, they transcend into some condition of blessedness!

to have access to the knowledge that the great dead I have learned to curse your motherhood,

Like balls of thistle-down You armfuls of sunshine, and you won't let me live." OUT of this oubliette between the mountains