Women in Poetry

Throughout history women poets have left a significant mark on literature society. It means expression of women who often experienced constraints by society. Thats what I'm thinking about women in poetry. But it is different in George Eliot poetry. Well, George Eliot known for her novels , but i found one of her poems catch my eyes! It's free verse poems entitled ' Roses'. 

Here we go ! 

You love the roses – so do I.  I wish

The sky would rain down roses, as they rain

From off the shaken bush. Why will it not?

Then all the valley would be pink and white

And soft to tread on. They would fall as light

As feathers, smelling sweet; and it would be

Like sleeping and like waking, all at once

(George Eliot)

It is very beautiful poem right ? Let's take a look of her biography. 

Born Mary Anne Evans,1819, in Nuneaton,Warwickshire; a daughter of Robert Evans, an estate agent, and Christina Evans; died 1880 in London.  She was baptized Mary Anne, but used the spelling Mary Ann until 1851, when she was began using Marian. She lived with G. H. Lewes from 1854 until his death in 1878; She married John Cross in 1880 , a few months before her death. She translated David Friedrich Strauss's The Life of Jesus,Critcally Examined (1846,anonymously) and Ludwig Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity (1854, as Marian Evans). Her novels, stories and poems were published under the name George Eliot, although after 1859 her authorship was widely known. 

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