Monday, October 27, 2008

Lost love

After reading Alfonsina Storni's poems I found the repetitive theme to be a lost love.  Going back and reading the background on her it is said that at twenty years of age she moved to Bueno Aires.  She had a son but no husband at this time.  This could very well have been the source of her lost love.  Her other early poems were also written much on the female conscience and sexual injustice.  She was able to achieve recognition and was able to make plenty of money but these attributes did little to "assuage her aggrieved sense of gender injustice or her dismay over her sexual dependancy on men."  In her mid 40's Storni became depressed and was plagued by  bad health.  She "walked into the sea in October 1938."

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