Seven Women's Blessed Assurance
Seven Women's Blessed Assurance - meaning Summary
Playful Ageing and Desire
This short poem presents seven playful vignettes in which the speaker describes herself at different ages and body types, each provoking male attention. The voice negotiates cultural expectations of attractiveness, mixing humor and self-awareness to suggest changing kinds of desirability. By the final stanzas the speaker drops pretense about age and asserts a calm, reciprocal need—aging as a natural, respectable stage rather than a loss.
Read Complete Analyses1 One thing about me, I'm little and low, find me a man wherever I go. 2 They call me string bean ‘cause I'm so tall. Men see me, they ready to fall. 3 I'm young as morning and fresh as dew. Everybody loves me and so do you. 4 I'm fat as butter and sweet as cake. Men start to tremble each time I shake. 5 I'm little and lean, sweet to the bone. They like to pick me up and carry me home. 6 When I passed forty I dropped pretense, ‘cause men like women who got some sense. 7 Fifty-five is perfect, so is fifty-nine, ‘cause every man needs to rest sometime.
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