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Women Analysis
Author: poem of Louise Bogan Type: poem Views: 31
Women have no wilderness in them,
They are provident instead,
Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts
To eat dusty bread.
They do not see cattle cropping red winter grass,
They do not hear
Snow water going down under culverts
Shallow and clear.
They wait, when they should turn to journeys,
They stiffen, when they should bend.
They use against themselves that benevolence
To which no man is friend.
They cannot think of so many crops to a field
Or of clean wood cleft by an axe.
Their love is an eager meaninglessness
Too tense or too lax.
They hear in any whisper that speaks to them
A shout and a cry.
As like as not, when they take life over their door-sill
They should let it go by.
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Ive wondered about this poem, as Bogan once made a quote regarding her role as a reviewer (For the New Yorker I believe it was) how she didn't want to criticize other women's poetry/writing. In some sense - she knew what she was up against being a woman - and so I wonder if this speaks of restrictions, perhaps its tongue in cheek which I would "like" it to be -- satirizing women. I do think, however, it deals with women not grabbing the bulls by the horn, so to speak - being passive. Whether it's meant to get the reader to argue ... or it's how she feels, I'm uncertain.
| Posted on 2008-09-22 | by a guest
Louise Bogan seems to be sriticizing women for being dull, restricted in emotion, and passionless. Maybe due to her loss of one husband and experienced one divorce, she may have lost a lot of faith in the woman existence (within herself).
| Posted on 2008-02-11 | by a guest
Louise Bogan seems to be sriticizing women for being dull, restricted in emotion, and passionless. Maybe due to her loss of one husband and experienced one divorce, she may have lost a lot of faith in the woman existence (within herself).
| Posted on 2008-02-11 | by a guest
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