10-06-2011, 04:48 AM
The same film that gave us "History: it's just one fucking thing after another" 
Hi there Jack. At first I got the same interpretation out of this as AA, reading it as poets, especially with the final lines, but perhaps that's because poets are a little bit on the girly side... It was only on subsequent readings that the corsets (again, still could have been poets!) stood out, and the bit about bowers... do you know, it actually makes me incredibly happy to have a couple of interpretations that fit equally well into a poem, especially in this case as I can read further and remind myself that although it's generally the men who write the history, it's the women who make it possible.
It does remind me, not in words but in tone, of the folk song "Mothers, Daughters, Wives" by Judy Small (an Australian, but there have been plenty of cover versions).
It's a powerful piece of poetry, Jack.
Hi there Jack. At first I got the same interpretation out of this as AA, reading it as poets, especially with the final lines, but perhaps that's because poets are a little bit on the girly side... It was only on subsequent readings that the corsets (again, still could have been poets!) stood out, and the bit about bowers... do you know, it actually makes me incredibly happy to have a couple of interpretations that fit equally well into a poem, especially in this case as I can read further and remind myself that although it's generally the men who write the history, it's the women who make it possible.
It does remind me, not in words but in tone, of the folk song "Mothers, Daughters, Wives" by Judy Small (an Australian, but there have been plenty of cover versions).
It's a powerful piece of poetry, Jack.
It could be worse