-I don’t know the answer to this yet, but what is the point of hearing these ‘wives’s’ voices?\u00a0 I haven’t studied too deeply into this, but this all feels a little…primitive to me.\u00a0 A collective voice of all these unsung female counterparts to these male personages seem to be saying “hey, this guy you’ve heard about? *<\/em>takes a swig from a wine bottle*\u00a0Well let me tell you about him, biggest jerk you’ll ever meet”\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>What are we suppose to take from this?\u00a0 That all these well-known male personages are scum?\u00a0 Is this an intentional feminist poetry collection?\u00a0 It just feels so one-sided and inhumane.<\/p>\n -Okay so now to completely contradict that last statement, I actually did really like the Mrs. Quasimodo poem, because I was touched by the irony.\u00a0 Disney’s\u00a0The Hunchback of Notre Dame<\/em> is one of my all-time favorite movies.\u00a0 If you cut out that crappy sequel all-together and just picture sweet and pure Quasimodo finding a lady friend as ugly and deformed as he, wouldn’t that just warm your heart?\u00a0 This poem had no purity in it.\u00a0 Lust is lust.\u00a0 Beauty isn’t in the eye of the beholder.\u00a0 Quasimodo, even though he should hold more empathy for the broken things, does the carnal and sees himself above it.\u00a0 That brought this predicament out into the real world where I think we see this problem more.\u00a0 I don’t want to put beauty on a scale, but it’s the ugly guy cheating on his wife with younger, gorgeous women that are way out of his league.\u00a0 I think this collection is suppose to illustrate these real-world relationship connections that I found in\u00a0Mrs. Quasimodo<\/em>, but I haven’t found them yet.<\/p>\n Quasimodo the womanizer<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em>Image courtesy of giphy.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The World’s Wife. What can you say? This post is really just my musings and new impressions of the second of Duffy’s poetry collections in our reading que. I fully expect most of them to change and evolve as we continue to discuss this. -While Standing Female Nude’s collection of poems are threaded together loosely in… Read More First Impressions of The World’s Wife<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9aQyB-5R","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/KbNpuB4YBjZq8\/giphy.gif\")
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