Keep Your Bottoms Off Barstol Poem

This poem is not strictly about a man who is trying to get a woman to have premarital sex with him. I think this work was more about the use of religious imagery in regards to a sexual act. Starting in the second stanza, we see our first religious imagery and diction. The first line,

I believe this is a poem about the speaker’s interaction with a past lover. In the first 15 lines in this poem she is using the word “Bitch”, to represent her internal feelings towards her past lover. The imagery is very vivid in this poem. She uses very descriptive phrases like; “Bark hysterically,” and “Slobbers and grovels,” in order to convey about her inner bitch. In lines 19-27 she gives a vivid picture of this rocky relationship she had with this man. She then uses the bitch, devoted and loyal, as a metaphor for the feelings she had for the man. It is inferred that she behaved as a loyal loved puppy and this man neglected her. For instance, lines 20-21, “How she would lay at his feet and looked up adoringly/though he was absorbed in

She is realizing that she will have freedom through her husband death and whispers over and over, “free, free, free!” Her unhappiness is not with her husband, it is her rankings in society and becoming a widow is her only chance she has to gain the power, money, respect, and most of all freedom.

Greenberg is so clever with the use of verbal irony throughout the poem. The wife is really being sarcastic to her husband, in an attempt to reveal her desires that are evidently ignored. The main line that triggered my understanding was, "Not strong, not proud, not just, not provident, my lover would blame me for his heart's distress, which you would never think to do" (630). Once again, I initially thought she was complimenting her husband and showing him great respect. This strong, proud, just and provident man seemed perfect. However, the choice of words "...my lover would blame me for his heart's distress..." is what enlightened my thinking (630). The wife wanted to be so important to her husband that she would be the only thing that causes him distress. She actually resents this prideful man who seems to make everything else more important that her.

In the third stanza it states that “If she wants to grill anything, it's her husband spitted over a slow fire. This quote makes me feel that she want to kill her husband because he is probably not helping her at home and making her his slave. I believe that this person is tired of cooking and being a slave to her husband. In the end of the poem, it also states “During dinner is not incompetence but war”. This means that this happened for a long time I believe that women all over the world are being mistreated and they should stand up for what they believe in. Therefore women should be treated the same way men are being

A more disturbing perspective that the poem can take on is that the speaker wants to be the slave to this woman he admires. As mentioned before, the speaker considers the girl as a confidante, but then follows on to say that he wants to undress and take her virginity. “O she’ll give pleasure! in future, no grown man will deny it! But tonight, to me, this chaste girl bares unthinking the delicate blush/Of a most secret landscape, her woman’s body” (9-14). These lines also gave me pedophilic vibes because he calls the female figure “a girl” and it was interesting

Most of the poem is sweet, but also tells them to hurry and enjoy life right now before they run out of time. Also that their bodies are energized now and later on they won’t be able to do what they would do when they were younger. In comparison to “To His Coy Mistress” the author tells them to get married also because they have something that time will sooner, or later take away and that would be sad that they didn’t get to enjoy it just because they wanted to

In the world of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s nest women are generally considered less superior than men, however in the middle of feminists movements in the workforce and general equality it was becoming an occurrence to see more women in higher positions of power with higher salaries within their workforce. R.P McMurphy is presented with contrasting character views of this change in preference for the traditional ‘housewife’ perspective of women. Characterising women as either “Ball Cutters” or “Whores”, McMurphy's perspective is said to be archaically inappropriate. “Ball Cutters” are defined as women who take control and aim to dominate over men exposing a particular vulnerability and hence creating a sense of weakness within men. “Whores” are defined as women who serve as pleasure tool for men, powerless and submissive

The main character possesses the characteristics of most young women, a full plate of responsibility and the lack of freedom that can wither away a person’s soul.  My response to this poem is that I strongly respect the author for bringing up such a controversial issue such as discontentment with being a stay-at-home mother, since this is usually to be expected of women.  Dove explains the poem delicately and leaves the underlying sense that she may have possibly been through the situation herself.  This being said, her imagery is wonderfully used and the metaphor of the doll being slumped over is a brilliant way to reflect upon the main character’s feelings and actions.  The irony comes into play, in my opinion,

In the first few lines of the poem, the reader can already receive a feel of the irony as the poet describes the scene of a maiden left behind as her lover falls in battle. The poet illustrates a scene as to where most readers would feel sorrow and sympathy towards the maiden and perhaps have the speaker in the poem enlighten the

The only other way a woman is depicted here is being a “whore”. “George sighed, “You give me a good whore house everytime, “ He said. “A guy can go in an get drunk and get ever’thing outa his

In the last stanza, the narrator witnesses the young "Harlot" (prostitute) cursing and reprimanding "Blasts" the infant's cries and "tears" at what could be the result of being fatherless. The soldiers' deaths leaving mothers widowed, turning the joyful occasion of marriage (also personified) into a depressing event “the Marriage hearse”. This stanza has a very different rhyme structure to the previous ones. It is half octameter and heptameter, making it slightly off beat. Lines thirteen and sixteen are slower (octameter), while lines thirteen and sixteen (heptameter) have a rapid, excited tone.

The poet points out that losing her virginity is not a sin. "A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead" He tries to reverse her views that both society and herself share. He is very persuasive in this poem and uses the flea many times as a symbol of their sexual union and uses many metaphors. He uses many sly phrases also which could easily win his argument and I feel it is making her feel guilty and starting to make her confused and think about the prospects of them having sex.

I found the dynamic between the prostitutes and Corrigan very interesting, the prostitutes seemed to be infatuated with Corrigan and competing for his affection. I feel that this takes place because Corrigan is the only man who has ever resisted their advances. The women have made careers of peaking the interest of males. Corrigan, however, keeps to his religious vows and refuses them. This is probably the first time the women have been rejected in quite some time, as a result they feel the need to seduce him as a sort of competition.

The poem starts off just saying how the main character was “born as usual”. There is nothing wrong with the main character and she is just a normal girl that played with Barbie dolls. It is not until the fifth line that “the magic of puberty” finally hits the author. Sadly, it is during this time when the human mind is so fragile, that the high standards of the mass media on how a women should look start to bear down, crash, and take over a lot