A power point presentation of Louise Bogan's poem,"Women"

1. - Louise Bogan

2. LOUISE
BOGAN
American
poet

3. Themes
 Against gender discrimination
 Life of women deprived of
freedom
 Difficulty of breaking barriers
created by society

4. WOMEN
Women have no
wilderness in them,
They are provident
instead,
Content in the tight hot
cell of their hearts
To eat dusty bread.

6. They do not hear
Snow water going down under
culverts
Shallow and clear

7. They wait , when the
should turn to
journeys,
They stiffen ,when
they should bend.
They use against
themselves that
benevolence
To which no man is
friend

8. They cannot think
of so many crops
to a field

9. Or of
clean
wood cleft
by an
axe.

10. Their love is an
eager
meaninglessn
ess
Too tense or
too lax

11. They hear in any whisper
that speaks to them
A shout and a cry.

12. As like as not ,when they take life
over their door-sill
They should let it go by