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Louise Bogan - Women

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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Poet: Louise Bogan
Poem: Women
Volume: Body of This Death
Year: Published/Written in 1923
Poem of the Day: Jan 7 2009

Comment 8 of 8, added on July 17th, 2012 at 1:34 PM.
english

criticism may helps empowerment,but louises dark,pessimistic,feable women makes a negativ impact.As a teacher,i felt such an thearotical crisis consernig this poem

raseena.kk from India
Comment 7 of 8, added on February 10th, 2012 at 12:26 AM.
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The cgervaoe you have given to poetry in recent days has been significant and much appreciated.

Melchor from Argentina
Comment 6 of 8, added on July 3rd, 2011 at 11:37 AM.
the analysise

this poem deals with women in 19 century in the American and European communities .the scope upon women"s right.
It was an age when there is a sharp differentiation between men and women .men are thought they have natures suited to the public world while women thought they are private .
men are powerful ,brave ,active ,logical, dependence ,rational and ambitious . while women are weak ,timid,passive ,illogical,independence ,emotional ,and content .
European and American women in 19 century lived in gender inequality .Bogan tried through this poem to reform the perspective about women"s rights.
if we look to women "s right in employment.women are rejected because that opinion ,they are content passive and lazy.In the lower class women were working in only as servants and as factory workers they worked in home ,any serious study of ant subject was seen as harmful to family unless the serious study deals with social and religious issues.


Ameera

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