🔵 The Rights of Women Anna Lætitia Barbauld Summary Analysis - Rights of Women Anna Lætitia Barbauld

The Rights of Women by Anna Lætitia Barbauld - Summary Analysis - The Rights of Women by Anna Lætitia Barbauld
1743 - 1825
Yes, injured Woman! rise, assert thy right!
Woman! too long degraded, scorned, opprest;
O born to rule in partial Law's despite,
Resume thy native empire o'er the breast!
Go forth arrayed in panoply divine;
That angel pureness which admits no stain;
Go, bid proud Man his boasted rule resign,
And kiss the golden sceptre of thy reign.
Go, gird thyself with grace; collect thy store
Of bright artillery glancing from afar;
Soft melting tones thy thundering cannon's roar,
Blushes and fears thy magazine of war.
Thy rights are empire: urge no meaner claim,-
Felt, not defined, and if debated, lost;
Like sacred mysteries, which withheld from fame,
Shunning discussion, are revered the most.
Try all that wit and art suggest to bend
Of thy imperial foe the stubborn knee;
Make treacherous Man thy subject, not thy friend;
Thou mayst command, but never canst be free.
Awe the licentious, and restrain the rude;
Soften the sullen, clear the cloudy brow:
Be, more than princes' gifts, thy favours sued;-
She hazards all, who will the least allow.
But hope not, courted idol of mankind,
On this proud eminence secure to stay;
Subduing and subdued, thou soon shalt find
Thy coldness soften, and thy pride give way.
Then, then, abandon each ambitious thought,
Conquest or rule thy heart shall feebly move,
In Nature's school, by her soft maxims taught,
That separate rights are lost in mutual love.
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[@Khatoon170]

As always iam gathering main theme of poem and poet biography briefly here it’s rights of women is porto - feminist poem that intones power that woman might have if she resists social law and rises up to take control over world. Anna laetita barbauld ( 1743- 1825) she was prominent English poet , essayist, literary critic , editor, author of children literature. Prominent member of blue stocking society and woman of letters who published multiple genres . She had successful writing career that spanned more than half century.

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Women of the whole world owe a debt of gratitude to Anglo Saxon women for it was there were the rights of women blossomed. Were the seed emerged. Down from Boudicca and her rebellion against the romans, to the Americans suffragettes, the world owes a great deal to these brave women. Ms. Barbauld is one of the many who contributed to the freedom of women. It is a sad thing when in the west were the rights of women were conquered and fought for, prostitution is the new chains placed on women through the drug mafias and syndicates that have discovered it makes more money to exploit a woman than traffick drugs. Let’s see who in today’s world steps to the plate to defend the rights of women against organized crime.