 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - Literary Collections - 2003 - 770 pages
...striving pain. Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure: A weak or wounded brain admits no cure. 5 I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my...hand a needle better fits. A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on female wits. If what I do prove well, it won't advance,... | |
 | Eleanor Elson Heginbotham - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 208 pages
...respected in her own time—mocks her Puritan patriarchy with "A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong, / For such despite they cast on female wits:...do prove well, it won't advance, / They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance" (16). See the excellent Adrianne Rich introduction to a volume of... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - Literary Collections - 2003 - 770 pages
...says my hand a needle better fits. A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite the}' cast on female wits. If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance. 6 But sure the antique Greeks were far more mild, Else of our Sex,... | |
 | Michael Fitzgerald - Religion - 2003 - 206 pages
...and women know it well."16 But at the same time she allows herself a flash of anger and independence: I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits if what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.17 When... | |
 | Muna Lee - America - 2004 - 340 pages
...else some man must have been the real author if truth were known. To such calumny Anne retorted hotly: I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my...Poet's pen all scorn I thus should wrong, For such dispute they cast on female wits, If what I do, prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stolen,... | |
 | Kelly M. Kapic, Randall C. Gleason - Religion - 2004 - 324 pages
...founded, Common- wealths begun" (113). She also noted, with respect to her sex, that in composing verse, "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue / Who says my hand a needle better fits" (114). But the poem also boldly suggested that, although "Men can do best, and women know it well,"... | |
 | Janna Malamud Smith - Family & Relationships - 2004 - 306 pages
...Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet announced her exception to this "no writing" rule and the anxiety it caused: "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue / who says my hand a needle better fits.")6 A Token for Mourners is a serious book of advice, meant for a devout audience. At the same... | |
 | Patricia Demers - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 376 pages
...wreath' (line 48) and pre-empting by discrediting the criticism based on woman's role as a needleworker: I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my...hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on female wits: If what I do prove well, it won't advance,... | |
 | Wisam Abdul Jabbar - American literature - 2005 - 266 pages
...Prologue" to her volume, she defended her poetic wind against those who claimed that it "shucked no corn": I am obnoxious to each carping tongue, Who says my...hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on female wits; If what I do prove well, it won't advance,... | |
 | Jason A. Merchey - Business & Economics - 2005 - 321 pages
...both. — ALICE STONE BLACKWELL The truth often sounds paradoxical. — LAO Tzu If what I do proves well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. — ANNE BRADSTREET Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with... | |
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I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong; For such despite they cast on female wits: If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance. 
