I really enjoyed this poem. I noticed that this poem was written in 1936, so it was when woman barely had any rights. It is funny, because my dad was just talking about a book he was reading about woman's suffrage and how crazy it was.
I thought that the bonsai tree to women was such a cool comparison. I know that this poem was written in the 1930's, but I still can relate to it a lot.
The poem is about women having to look groomed and pretty and "perfect" and only do domestic things, while their full potential is not being reached. The bonsai tree "could have grown eighty feet tall but a gardener carefully pruned it."
Women are always seen as the domestic caretakers of a family and I think that it is cool that a woman realized that this doesn't always have to be the case in 1936 when woman had less rights than men.
The bonsai tree "could have grown eighty feet tall but a gardener carefully pruned it."
ReplyDeleteThis is a great line. I think sometimes we allow ourselves to be carefully pruned and live a life we are "supposed" to live. It's sometimes hard to see our own potential.