Corset Poem

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The Poem is a villanelle, the poem has 19 lines and 5 tercets and a quatrain. The metaphor of a corset is a good fit, because it gives the readers knowledge about the meaning the author was trying to give through her poem. The corset is what women uses to shape their bodies to make them look better in everyone else eyes, which could be restricting. Throughout the poem it seems like the use of corset shows how women are viewed through the eyes of men. Most images used in the poem seemed to be negative. One of the negative image in the poem is when the author states, “Ouch, too tight a corset.” (Mitchell, 1994, line 6). The author is describing how women are trying their best to look good at all times. Also, it could be showing how women, were

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