The woman was ill-treated and abused both physically and verbally by her husband when he was alive. But all this was accepted by the woman because society had made her believe that a man had the right to rule over his wife and even abuse her when displeased as he was the master who went out into the world while she was to deal with family problems. But this idea of the man takes a beating when the farmer is unable to withstand the pressure and commits suicide by consuming poison. He thereby poisoned his wife’s existence as, now, the woman has to shoulder the responsibility of both work and home.

She has to struggle hard to repay the loan suffering humiliation and also earn enough to keep her children and herself alive. Naturally, the woman has all negative memories of the man who did no justice to her when alive and did a greater injustice to her by embracing death. The poet wants to point out that while all of us sympathise with the man who was driven to commit suicide, the plight of the woman who has to fend for herself is worse than that of the man who is dead and thereby free of all problems.