Power Analysis

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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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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