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Comparing Two Poems About Women

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This week’s poems where Lord Alfred Tennyson’s “Mariana” and “The Lady of Shalott”, Christina Rossetti’s “No Thank You John” and “Promises Like Pie Crust” and William Morris’ “The Defence of Guenevere”. All these poems displayed something about how women were viewed and the way that they were perceived back in the Victorian times. The first poem “Mariana” is about a woman who lives in worn down house because she doesn't have any meaning to her life because she was never able to marry. The second poem, also by “The Lady of Shalott” is about a woman who was stuck in a tower weaving for her entire life, because if she left a cure would fall on her and she would die. She stayed in the tower growing lonely until she saw Sir Lancelot and decided …show more content…

To start off my, my favorite poem by far was Christina Rossetti’s “No Thank You John”. To me it was so funny because I could picture this guy getting turned down and how counter contemporary it would have been to see a woman turning down a man. The first time I read it I kept thinking of that new song that talks about a girl friendzoning a guy. I really enjoyed reading a female writer’s poem and I found it funny and even relevant to our times, I'm sure every girl has had to friendzone a guy one time or another. Since Christina Rossetti wrote two poems like this, “No Thank You John” and “Promises Like Pie Crust”, I can't help to wonder if John was a real guy who she wrote the poem to trying to get the message across. Maybe it was like a old school version of a Taylor Swift song, because she sings about relationships and such. If Christina Rossetti’s “No Thank You John” was the highlight of my reading this week then William Morris’ “The Defence of Guenevere” had to be my low point. It wasn't even that “The Defence of Guenevere” was that bad of a poem, it was a good story and all but it was just a harder read for me and I felt like if might've repeated itself too much or have contradicted itself in some places. To me it was a little confusing in some parts of the story because Guenevere would say that it was all a lie but then she would go about describing and

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