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Author: poem of Adrienne Rich Type: poem Views: 19
Living in the earth-deposits of our history
Today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling flank of earth
one bottle amber perfect a hundred-year-old
cure for fever or melancholy a tonic
for living on this earth in the winters of this climate.
Today I was reading about Marie Curie:
she must have known she suffered from radiation sickness
her body bombarded for years by the element
she had purified
It seems she denied to the end
the source of the cataracts on her eyes
the cracked and suppurating skin of her finger-ends
till she could no longer hold a test-tube or a pencil
She died a famous woman denying
her wounds
denying
her wounds came from the same source as her power.
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Marie Curie was the woman who created the succes in making atomic bombs
with atoms, the poem is of Maries success, though how her obsession with it
became the death of her. Contrasting Marie Curies wounds an way of life to
be obsessed with her ambition/professional success also personal
aggrandisement and the consequences.
| Posted on 2009-11-09 | by a guest
Marie Curie was the woman who created the succes in making atomic bombs
with atoms, the poem is of Maries success, though how her obsession with it
became the death of her. Contrasting Marie Curies wounds an way of life to
be obsessed with her ambition/professional success also personal
aggrandisement and the consequences.
| Posted on 2009-11-09 | by a guest
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i think i agree. I knew it had something to do with power being the death of people. Some sort of ironic twist about humanity and its relationship with the earth maybe? Im not sure. Mostly i dont understand the begining of it or at least how it relates to the rest of the poem. Maybe im just stupid...
| Posted on 2009-04-16 | by a guest
i think i agree. I knew it had something to do with power being the death of people. Some sort of ironic twist about humanity and its relationship with the earth maybe? Im not sure. Mostly i dont understand the begining of it or at least how it relates to the rest of the poem. Maybe im just stupid...
| Posted on 2009-04-16 | by a guest
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• Glorification of Marie Curie, a smart and successful woman who died because of her experimentations with radiology
• Describes a tonic that cures fever and x she goes into realistic cure in Marie Curie—whose body deteriorated until she finally died from the experiments she did
• Denying her wounds, denying her wounds that came from the same source of power: her brilliance and her experiments are her best success but also the reason for her death—irony
| Posted on 2009-02-11 | by a guest
• Glorification of Marie Curie, a smart and successful woman who died because of her experimentations with radiology
• Describes a tonic that cures fever and x she goes into realistic cure in Marie Curie—whose body deteriorated until she finally died from the experiments she did
• Denying her wounds, denying her wounds that came from the same source of power: her brilliance and her experiments are her best success but also the reason for her death—irony
| Posted on 2009-02-11 | by a guest
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no one has posted anything? How very unhelpful. I was trying to get some opinions myself, but what I can only imagine this to be is an attempt to compare Marie Curie to a backhoe. Marie Curie is the discoverer of radium (which is what they use for x-rays). The backhoe is a large machine that is used to scoop up heavy stuff like dirt or anything on a construction site, and brings it back to the cab that is operating it. So maybe Rich is saying that Curie's radium was being dragged back to her thus causing her to become ill. Maybe Rich is arguing that with woman, all of the things they create which give them power will eventually bring their demise, no matter how willful they are in denying it. However, i'm not really sure, but we will be discussing this poem in class tomorrow, so if you want I can post some other opinions on here when I have some time.
-Sarah
| Posted on 2008-10-22 | by a guest
no one has posted anything? How very unhelpful. I was trying to get some opinions myself, but what I can only imagine this to be is an attempt to compare Marie Curie to a backhoe. Marie Curie is the discoverer of radium (which is what they use for x-rays). The backhoe is a large machine that is used to scoop up heavy stuff like dirt or anything on a construction site, and brings it back to the cab that is operating it. So maybe Rich is saying that Curie's radium was being dragged back to her thus causing her to become ill. Maybe Rich is arguing that with woman, all of the things they create which give them power will eventually bring their demise, no matter how willful they are in denying it. However, i'm not really sure, but we will be discussing this poem in class tomorrow, so if you want I can post some other opinions on here when I have some time.
-Sarah
| Posted on 2008-10-22 | by a guest
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