Although I was happy that we finally got to another female writer along with Queen Elizabeth and Wroth, I was kind of disappointed with Katherine Phillips. I much preferred writers like Marlowe and Donne and to be honest, I really did not like her style. Maybe it's my own personal gripe, but I get so bored of poetry that constantly rhymes so cleanly and neatly and bounces like a song. I did like some of her images, especially the one where her baby boy is a fallen rosebud, but I did not see the wonder I found in some of our other poets. I was certainly happy to see some semblance of women's work dug up, but I was sad to see that there wasn't more. I know it makes sense, since women still hadn't a fraction of the opportunities that men had, but even so. I was hoping to see a woman burst out of our crowd of men this semester and grab my heart, but it didn't really happen. At least I can be thrilled that there are a trillion women writers now, but it would have been nice to see a wider breadth of perspective during that time frame. Ho hum.
And then there is Milton. Oh boy does he have a word to say about everything...
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I couldn't agree with you more. Phillips was so weak, and she really failed to get her point across due to her writing style. That being said, she really didn't get a chance to blossom into a great writer. She died when she was 20.
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