She is to remain quiet and calm, trusting the necessity and inevitability of the speaker's leaving. The second and third strong images in the poem concern the love connection between the couple. The poet uses gold as a metaphor for the pliability a Continue Reading...
The same is true of politics, where there are few women political leaders, and the United States has never seen a woman president or vice-president. It is interesting to note that Wollstonecraft hopes women will "grow more and more masculine" in ord Continue Reading...
The fly is a gruesome image because flies gather around decaying corpses. However, while this image is startling, it is still shocking that the poet is not more in shock of dying, of being dead, or witnessing just a fly upon her death. The poem con Continue Reading...
