Married state

The first 200 words of this essay...

'A Married State' is written by a poet named Katherine Philips, the poem is based around the negativity of a life since a man and women ever join in holy matrimony. Whereas, The 'Song of a Worker's Wife' is by a poet named Alice Grey Jones; the poem is based around life's involvement on a growing family. The two poems that are based on the thoughts of marriage and a women's role within it, they take sharply opposite views.

'A Married State' is set in a negative tone; the reader is drawn into the intense atmosphere on lines 1-2, 'A married state affords but little ease: The best of husbands are so hard to please.' It describes the hard life of a strained married hood 'little ease' elaborates more on the husband's and wife's relationship showing the very little freedom in their relationship, for the wife to break through into pleasure would be a struggle even with 'the best of husbands'.

Whereas, 'Song of a Worker's Wife' is set in a positive tone in the comparison to marriage in lines 1-5 'My hands are none to white'... 'But my hands are not complaining'. It describes a wives believes