"The Wife's Lament" or "The Wife's Complaint" is an Old English poem of 53 lines found in the Exeter Book and generally treated as an elegy in the manner of the German frauenlied, or woman's song. The poem has been relatively well-preserved and requires few if any emendations to enable an initial reading. Thematically, the poem is primarily concerned with the evocation of the grief of the female speaker and with the representation of her state of despair. The tribulations she suffers leading to her state of lamentation, however, are cryptically described and have been subject to many interpretations. Indeed, Professor Stephen Ramsay has said, "the' correct' interpretation of "The Wife's Lament" is one of the more hotly debated subjects in medieval studies."

Based on this passage, what is the meaning of the poem the wife's lament? Let's give stream of consciousness first:
To answer the question, consider the following: Thematically, the poem is primarily concerned with the evocation of the grief of the female speaker and with the representation of her state of despair.
So, the final answer is the evocation of the grief of the female speaker and with the representation of her state of despair.