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- This week with Miss Gee -
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
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So we read a poem by Auden this week titled Miss Gee. It was one of those poems about a woman who lived her whole life buttoned up to her neck and died of cancer. She lived a repressed sheltered life and dreamed about love and excitement. She goes to church faithfully and prays to the saints that she can be a good girl. I thought the poem was so ironic because after she is dead, she donates her body to science and is looked at by laughing students while she is dissected. In the end she is hung up on display and is not covered up the way she lived her life.
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1 Comments:
Hi,
Good summary of the poem, Miss Gee. That poem both saddened and cheered me. It was difficult to figure out exactly what the point was supposed to be. But I preferred to look at it as a good, humble woman who wanted very little from life, and didn't seem to be able to get even that.
Dorothy
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