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[seamusd]

Erica Jong

Seventeen Warnings in Search of a Feminist Poem

1 Beware of the man who denounces ambition

Comments

[copperbird]

I'm sensing some projection in #3 :)

[seamusd]

Yeah, it's funny how only men seem to be complaining about this poem. #3 indeed!

[profgreen]

Just because you put a line in your poem that reads "It is impossible to critique this poem," doesn't make it impossible. This is not the ontological argument for the poetry god.

I admitted that the reason for the critique is I possibly couldn't understand what I meant to be a woman and therefore missed the meaning.

Elizadarcy is a female or so her profile says, and I also think trillador is.

If you want a good, decisive, yet thoroughly banal critique of this poem I could point of the fact of how openly homophobic it is. #13.

[seamusd]

Why are you taking this so seriously? One cannot ignore the historical context of this culturial artifact. And I was laughing only at the almost predictable male-only response that is almost anticipated by the poem itself!

[elizadarcy]

nah - even if it is satire - it doesn't work for me.
And it isn't even so much about men or women - more like - if you find anything you like - beware! Thou art on the road to destruction as alas! The world is cruel.

[wonderoutloud]

Jesus Christ people take things so seriously