Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Sikes' Response to Browning's "Aurora Leigh: Book 5"
This metaphor that Browning uses at the end of the Book, claimin' poets and their poems nurture the people of their age just like a woman's breast nurtures her young and so woman can naturally be poets just as good as any man, this metaphor really gets under my skin. If it weren't for men, women wouldn't never have those babies that they feed. I mean, I guess I can understand her wantin' poets to focus on their own time, but women don't have enough of a grasp of the times to be a poet. They have their own womanly roles to fulfill and anything important to an era is controlled by men. And I tell you wot, I need to start hiding this here anthology because I don't like the way Nancy been lookin' at me and talkin' at me these past few days. This Browning isn't a poet, she's the devil tryin' to disrupt all of society!
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Hallo! Bumble here, my dear, to clear up this spot of disagreement over the issue of men and women. Mr. Sikes, my dear, you are quite right. Mr. Browning has got it all wrong. Women would be nothing without men. In fact, my dear, a woman's duty is to oblige the man. If, for instance, my dear, a man's wife wishes to be a poet, and her wise and loving husband, well schooled in the ways of the world, tells her that she cannot possibly be a poet, her duty is to oblige. After all, the law supposes that a wife acts under a husband's direction, don't it, my dear?
ReplyDeletenow this just doesn't seem fair here, men. Let us look at this logically. I'll ask: what would men be without women? Surely exinct for one. You both have wonderful women for wives and lovers, you're fools for believing that we, us women, are not capable of the ability to think for ourselves. I say a woman is capable of whatever she puts her mind to, and a little help and encouragement along the way wouldn't hurt.
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