✍️💞NaPoWriMo 2024 – April’s write a poem a day💞✍️ Day 1💞✍️01/04/24

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Now for our daily (and totally optional) prompt. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write – without consulting the book – a poem that recounts the plot, or some portion of the plot, of a novel that you remember having liked but that you haven’t read in a long time.

Happy writing!

Wuthering Heights - A Prose Poem

Mr Earnshaw brings a gypsy
urchin home. His daughter Cathy and the boy, Heathcliff, become close.They love each other, but Cathy wants a refined husband.

When she marries Edgar Linton, Heathcliff's love turns to obsession and vengeance.He ruins Cathy's brother, Hindley's life, as he becomes a drunken gambler.

Once in possession of Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff sets his sights on marrying Isobella, Edgar Linton's sister. Cathy and Edgar are appalled but he charms her.

They get married and too late Isobella realises Heathcliff's real motives. Isobella gives birth to young Linton, a sickly child who is 12 years old when she dies. 

Cathy and Edgar Linton have a daughter called, Catherine. Cathy dies in childbirth. Heathcliff is more bereft than Cathy's husband.
He can't believe she has died.

In his anger and grief, he continues his vengeance plot and contrives for young Catherine to meet his son, Linton. Under his tutelage the two fall in love.

Heathcliff practically kidnaps young Catherine and forces her to marry his son, Linton. His health deteriorates quickly. Catherine nurses him until his death.

Then Edgar Linton, her father dies and Heathcliff's revenge is complete. He now owns the Linton's property, the Grange as well as Wuthering Heights.

However, he is a grieving man for the loss of Cathy and his revenge has brought him no happiness.
The servants, Nellie and the religious Joseph have seen all.

The other character that completes the strange family at the Heights is Hareton, the late Hindley Earnshaw's son who is a willing servant to Heathcliff.

The author, Emily Bronte, uses the tenant of the Grange as a device to hear the family story from Nellie. She tells of Heathcliff's erratic behaviour and deterioration. 

How he dreams of the ghost of Cathy tapping on the window and begging to be let in. He digs her body up and lies with the rotted corpse all night. He stops eating.

Meanwhile, Catherine, takes pity on the ignorant, Hareton, although Joseph says no good will come of it. She teaches Hareton to read; the two are drawn to each other.

When an emaciated and mad Heathcliff dies, the couple are free to marry. The novel is full of violent obsessive passion that brings wreck and ruin to all.

Emily Bronte also uses the wild, Yorkshire moors as a character with its wildness, darkness and 
storms. Which is reflected in Heathcliff's neurotic character.

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