6. Louise Bogan
Louise Bogan was an American poet. She was
appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library
of congress in 1945. she has been called by some
critics the most accomplished women poet of the
twentieth century. Body of This Death(1923) was
her first volume of poetry, and it “contains several
Bogan’s most memorable poems and in general
reveals its author’s preoccupations and tastes,”
advised Miller.
7. Summary
Often women’s life is confined to the limited world of domesticity.
Their life without freedom is hard and painful. Louise Bogan, the famous American
poetess, in this famous poem ‘women’ tells us the agonies of women who are
defined freedom. The poetess is only depicting the sad fate of women around her.
She is of the opinion that women are often deprived of freedom. This makes them
accept many thinks against their will. In all these we see the sad surrendering of
poor women who are denied freedom. The poet does not raise an explicit plea of
changing the plight of women, but she just draws our attention towards how they
live in our society. All those absence in the life a women make her a pathetic or
rather a pitiable figure which would change only when she realises that her life is
nothing but a long chain of drab and banal commonalities and dreary nothingless.
8. Women do not set out on a journey. Instead they stey back
or wait. The lack of mobility makes them stiff. When they should bend on
occassions which demand them to, they never get acknowledgedand men
oppose them for being so womens life is confined to the limited world of
domesticity which is not spiced with varied out door experiences such as
involving in hard mannual labour and agragarian activities.
