I would like to get some insight about this poem. I am not very good at interpeting poems, so I would appreciate all the help I can get.
I found that another website described this poem as such:
"satirizes the idealization of female beauty and brings out the contrast between the real women and the effect she puts into her beauty."
do you agree?
At A Lost
Pretty much. I thought there was something that guy - Strephon, was it? - found in there that was kind of gross or something. Can't remember, but it definitely struck me as "satirical" when I read it.
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.
--Ursula K. Le Guin
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