Question

Which statement best describes how the author chose to structure the beginning and end of the poem A. The poem focuses on how sad women are before describing how cheerful they can become. B. The poem focuses on how women react to men for describing why men treat them badly. C. The poem focuses on the innocence of women before detailing how men caused them to become cruel. D. The poem focuses on how men treat women before detailing how women react emotionally to this treatment

Answer 1

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Answer:

D. The poem focuses on how men treat women before detailing how women react emotionally to this treatment

Explanation:

The poem focuses on showing how women are controlled throughout their lives and how this control makes them captive, without freedom and often without happiness. Women are controlled by their father, brothers, lover and husband, they never have a moment of autonomy and freedom and this makes them become a type of slave, desiring a servile mind, so that they can be emotionally positive, deal with that kind of life.

This can be seen in the lines: "To a slave’s fetters add a slavish mind, / That I may cheerfully your will obey."