>The images and the metaphor are the poet's choice to historicize the need to
>work hard at making the world a better place in which to live - but like
>some poets, suggest her *conscience* is not really cool, it's rather prissy
>to *care* about the world we are leaving our children (well the oil is
>disappearing to the bottom of the ocean).
>And it is the 'female voice' as you guys wouldn't write a poem using the
>metaphor of doing the laundry.
Au contraire, Neruda himself often referred to laundry, tomatoes,
children being bathed and other homely things, and he is not especially
an exception. There is no such thing as the "female voice". There are,
of course, poets who are women.
Nature, I have noticed, is not especially amenable to being Fabuloned -
one result of it being tidied up is that a lot of species are
disappearing. It would get on much better without our "caring" for it.
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