The Crazy Woman
The Crazy Woman - meaning Summary
Choosing Winter Over Spring
The poem presents a speaker who refuses the expected cheerful songs of May, choosing instead to wait for November to sing a bleak, terrible song. That deliberate postponement inverts seasonal symbolism: spring's gaiety is rejected in favor of autumnal cold and darkness. The speaker anticipates communal judgment—being labeled "the Crazy Woman"—which underlines themes of nonconformity, internal sorrow, and the cost of resisting social expectations.
Read Complete AnalysesI shall not sing a May song. A May song should be gay. I'll wait until November And sing a song of gray. I'll wait until November That is the time for me. I'll go out in the frosty dark And sing most terribly. And all the little people Will stare at me and say, "That is the Crazy Woman Who would not sing in May."
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