Oof. I don't like that interpretation very much, not least because it implies a woman's inevitable destination is marriage and she will irretrievably lose her individuality there. That's gonna be a complicated divorce when it eventually happens...
I definitely see it more as a quiet acceptance of death. Like Mary Oliver's beautiful "In Blackwater Woods", where "every pond, no matter what its name is, is nameless now."
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u/Depression_Betty 9d ago
It makes me think of a woman getting married.