In Freud’s essay, “Mourning and Melancholia”, the writer believes the act of mourning, which if carried out mistakenly can consequence in melancholia, a pathological infirmity. Freud states, “ In mourning, it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia, it is the ego itself .” A person suffering with melancholia frequently cannot pin point what they have lost, as it is regularly not an individual but a non-figurative notion. Their obsession on this object is passionate often due to the egotistical basis of the attachment, consequently when they lose this entity; they lose a little more radical – themselves and their will to live. Indicators of melancholia are comparable to those of mourning; on the other hand melancholia is distinguished by “a strange diminution in self-regard” and the deficiency of shame. Freud believes that a convinced period of mourning is essential when confronting loss; in fact if this procedure were not to occur, or if this procedure were to be interrupted, it could be of great detriment. Mourning should be used to recognize the loss of a particular object and to eventually come to terms with the separation, the experience ultimately making one stronger and urging one forward. Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s poem the Woodspurge is dedicated to stimulating English art through medieval motivation. Rossetti was significantly highly praised for the spectacular and paranormal elements in his effort. Rossetti’s later years were blemished by grief and hopelessness. In 1860 he had wedded a milliner, Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal. Inside two years Elizabeth died, and Rossetti was sorrow stricken by the disaster. Additionally, he was concerned by a sour assault that had been made on the ethics of his poems. This grief and desperation is evident in the poem The Woodspurge. After going through this traumatic experience, many critics believe that Rossetti speaks through the speaker of the poem. It starts of with the line: “The wind flapped loose, the wind was still”, here the wind might symbolize how the conditions of life are frequently changing, that he is living in a very unstable environment. Later in the first stanza he goes on to say that, “ I had walked on at the winds will; I sat now, for the wind was still “. It is clear from this that the poet has very little control over his life and he does whatever that was expected from him by society. In the second stanza, for the first time in the poem we understand that Rossetti is in distress, “ Between my knees my forehead was, my lips drawn in; my hair was over in the grass “, this suggests that Rossetti was completely distraught. In the third stanza there is reference to his troubles mentioned above, “some ten weeds to fix upon”, followed by the first source of salvation “Among those few out of the sun, the Woodspurge flowered, three cups in one”. There are two interpretations for the symbolism of the Woodspurge. The first is that the Woodspurge is some kind of poison in which he sees light in so as to end his life and escape from all the misery. The second interpretation is that the Woodspurge refers to his work, including this poem, perhaps he is trying to say that when he is working on his paintings and poems he forgets about his troubles. In the last verse of the poem, Rossetti sees obviously for the first time in the poem, in spite of being inconsolable his lose, he sees that he has to go on and once again he refers to the Woodspurge as somewhat that can revive