Feathers Milliner
What does this poem from Spoon River Anthology mean?
It's the Mrs. Williams one
I was the milliner
Talked about, lied about,
Mother of Dora,
Whose strange disappearance
Was charged to her rearing.
My eye quick to beauty
Saw much beside ribbons
and buckles and feathers
and leghorns and felts,
to set off sweet faces,
and dark hair and gold.
One thing I will tell you
and one I will ask:
The stealers of husbands
Wear powder and trinkets,
and fashionable hats.
Wives, wear them yourselves.
Hats may make divorces-
\They also prevent them.
Well now, let me ask you:
If all of the children, born here in Spoon River
had been reared by the County, somewhere on a farm;
and the fathers and mothers had been given their freedom
to live and enjoy, change mates if theywished,
Do you think that Spoon River
had been any the worse?
What one thing did she tell the people of Spoon River?
What one thing did she ask?
What is she implying?
Thanks so much for the help!!
She tells them that she knew of all the affairs going on. She could see beneath the finery to the real person....She asks the wives to be aware of their looks and buy up to date finery,like the hats she sold. She implies that even if everyone had been born on a farm away from the trinkets and finery of the big city, there would still be men and women who cheated on their spouses.
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