The poem was published in the year 1895. It highlights the inequality between men and women. The poem conveys that, in that era, women were considered unequal to men due to relationship obligations within the household, complexities of sex and the social standards that were upheld to men.
“Crime has no sex and yet to-day
I wear the brand of shame;
Whilst he amid the gay and proud
Still bears an honored name.
Can you blame me if I’ve learned to think
Your hate of vice a sham,
When you so coldly crushed me down
And then excused the man?
The language in the poem used shows that the poem was about love. The girl in the story was charmed by a man, but as the poem progresses the narrative tone of the girl fades into protests about the state of the country where women are marginalised, expected to take care of the house without any feeling whatsoever.
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