The summary of "The Wife's Lament" is that the narrator has been disowned by her own relative and her husband, and she is doomed to finish her life in poverty and all alone. Not only is the husband mean to her, he is mean to others as well, which cuts her off from society.
”The Wife’s Lament” is a short lyrical poem with only 53 lines found in the Exeter Book, which is considered to be one of the largest known collections of Old English literature. The poem is sometimes referred to as “The Woman’s Complaint,” and the author is unknown.
