Letter to the Author !

"A Women's World"

September 11, 2011

Dear Ms. Boland,

Your poem, “A Women’s World”, was just so remarkable, I really enjoyed reading it, and digging through it, with my English class. I really got to see what it was all about, not just any poem, but one with an important message behind it. Reading it inspired me to write this letter to you, and tell you how I can easily compare it to our society today, and cultures that involucrate my family and culture, which can relate to your piece.

When you wrote, “we were never on the scene of the crime.” Line 27-28. I thought about it like this, women have never been part of the big things that have been accomplished in our world today, nor years ago. This makes me realize that this issue has been longing for so much time now. My family comes from a culture where women are in charge of certain things, things like, keeping the home clean, having food cooked and done, and taking care of the children. Simple, nothing more nothing less. How are women going to step out of that “cycle” if they just have this way on living, as if it was mandatory, but I guess it kind of is.

I can relate our society today to how you compare two different women throughout your poem. One as a “fire-eater” and another as a “plume”. I’m not sure if I understand completely but to me it seems as if you evaluated yourself what a woman should be towards the world and what women in reality are really looked as. In lines 47-56 “That woman there craned to the starry mystery is merely getting a breath of evening air, while this one here---her mouth a burning plume---she’s no fire-eater, just my frosty neighbor coming home.” Ms. Boland, this is exactly what I mean, I see how you write that a woman is stretching her neck out to see what is out there, and this woman that you speak of seems to be someone looking out there and beyond to what can be hers. And this other woman, she’s just taking a breath while it’s cold outside, as if she was a fire-eater nothing the less she’s just a frosty neighbor coming home.

All women should be like the woman you speak about, things would change if women took charge and not underestimated themselves, and just went for what they are eager for. This is how I can connect, because I feel that I can’t be another woman who will follow this “culture” of only staying home and being a housewife, and thought there isn’t anything wrong with that. I believe I can be a housewife and be strong in a work force, be in charge of more than just cleaning and cooking.

I enjoyed reading your poem, and being able to state my opinion about it. Hope you can write back, thank you.

Sincerely,

Kathya Guevara