It seems to me that the objections are to it's sensual female
>voice, -
>the juxtaposition of the woman at the ironing board - the mundane.
>Throughout history women spent hours and hours ironing, pleating, spraying,
>starching, crimping etc. So, this sensual aestheticism, (synaesthesia) to
>me, portrays a definite woman's view of how we should nuture our earth.
>
Chris Hayden adds: This is what I was trying to get at. Many of the women
in my family would go about washing, ironing, folding, to relax and when
they had problems to work out. Like men washed their cars or whittled or
did other mundane things. It seems to me that on the one hand we may be
dealing with an attitude that feels that these activities are not
"liberated", and on another with a non understanding of such activities
because they are not "manly". A job well done--the sensual pleasant smells
of fresh laundry. This is what the poem gets at.
>
>why would we want to choose a "pretentious and silly"
>>poem to read at the top of Mt. Everest, the UN, etc., on World Poetry
>>Day (or whatever this event is called)?
>>
>>Candice
>
Chris Hayden sprachs: I am waiting for somebody to bring forth a
substitute, either written by someone else or that they have written. They
are going to read a poem,not do a position paper on the environment. Do not
take Byron's words about being unacknowledged legistlators of the world or
whatever so seriously, poets. We are the one panel cartoonists of the
literary world.
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