I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed
Saturday, March 20, 2010
WHOO. I am so super-duper excited about our new blog!!! XDDDD
The sad thing is, I havn't left my house in quite some time, so I don't have any exciting thing to blog about. Therefore, today I decide to share with you guys my favorite poem. It's by Edna St. Vincent Millay whom I like A LOT. Her voice is not quite feminine, nor feminist - it's just damn straight, honest and direct. What really impresses me is that in that honesty, that i-don't-care attitude, there's such a poignancy that allows you to connect with her emotions and her experience. It's a truly distinctive voice of a woman, and to imagine that she lived in those periods where women were expected to follow strict social rules...it just makes her all the more interesting and impressive. Ok, here's the poem:
I, Being Born a Woman and DistressedI, being born a woman and distressed
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find
Your person fair, and feel a certain zest
To bear your body's weight upon my breast:
So subtly is the fume of life designed,
To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind,
And leave me once again undone, possessed.
Think not for this, however, the poor treason
Of my stout blood against my staggering brain,
I shall remember you with love, or season
My scorn wtih pity, -- let me make it plain:
I find this frenzy insufficient reason
For conversation when we meet again.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
I have actually wanted to post this in my blog, but I never quite find the chance so I decide to post it here instead. Hope you guys like it. And oh, I have some picture for you guys too ^^ hehe
(Picture's title: Because RuaM's the biggest)
Take care ok my darlings! Looking forward to reading more posts from you girls ;))))
Labels: RuaM
3 Comments:
Ruam is the biggest and Rachel is the oldest...I look like I am going to rot sooooon in that pix -.-"
Old age is a pain... sigh...
i look like a tomato!
noooo you're a mandarin Fer! haha
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