Compare And Contrast The Connection Between The Wilderness And The Underworld

There is an evident connection between the wilderness and the underworld. The moment that breeches the connect is, "Through wood and over moorland bleak- he now the wilderness doth seek, and nothing finds to make him glad, but ever liveth lone and sad." This moment is when the King had to leave the town although he did not want to. This establishes a connection with the underworld because just as it sounds the underworld is not a joyful place where as the King is not in a joyful emotional place. The underworld can be viewed as the Heavens in Sir Orfeo, "Alas!' said he, 'unhappy day! Why will not now my death me slay? Alas! unhappy man, ah why may I not, seeing her, now die?" The issue that lay connected between the wilderness and the underworld
is the King's unhappiness, his death and the fact that he will never see or speak to his wife again. Not being able to speak to his wife again is the major connection made because it stems the deepest emotion from the wildreness and underworld, "when I dare not with mine own wife to speak a word, nor she with me. Alas! my heart should break,' said he. 'And yet, fore Heaven, tide what betide, and whithersoever these ladies ride, that road I will follow they now fare; for life or death no more I care.' "