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Originally posted by David Upson:
By the way, I’m familiar with some of Cornford’s other work and I always assumed that she was using transference; she was really expressing feelings about herself rather than some unknown woman in a field. She caught hell for it though, and I’m sure it had nothing to do with her being Charles Darwin’s granddaughter. To my knowledge, she never defended her poem with my explanation.
David
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Indeed, David. Such seeming arrogance is hard to find in her other poems.
Furthermore, she is cocooned, not in gloves, but in a train, so is all the more segregated from nature. Surely her intention must have been ironic?
Best regards,
David
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