A Death-Scene
"A Death-Scene" is a poem by English writer Emily Brontë. It was written on 2 December 1844 and published in 1846 in a book collecting poetry by Brontë and her siblings. Poem excerpt Context The poem appears to be a Gondal poem from the writing style, but there is nothing in the poem to confirm this theory. The narrator is an anonymous woman. There is no known character by the name of Edward in the Gondal Saga, and the one vague reference to "Arden's lake" is unhelpful because it is not a known place in either the Gondal world or the Glass Town Confederacy. Gondal was an imaginary world created by Emily and Anne Brontë in their childhood. Initially, all four siblings—Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell—created an imaginary world called "Angria", where each sibling ran an island with a town by the name of "Glasstown". They named it "the Glass Town Confederacy". Later Emily and Anne broke off and created their own world of Gondal. Gondal also had two islands, Gaaldine and Angora. The northern island was the Kingdom of Angora, and was commonly referred to as Gondal. It was a cold region with moorlands and mists. The southern island