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Poetry Anthology
I, being born a woman and distressed
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The poem was written in
1923
Some techniques used are irony,
contrast
,
rhyme
and colloquial language
The form of the poem is a
Petrarchan sonnet
The poem mocks
gender roles
and typical attitudes towards
women's behaviour
There is a contrast between the physical and the
rational
which shows she is able to separate the two and assert her
mental clarity
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