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Mary Robinson's Feminist Poem 'The Lamentation of Marie Antoinette'

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own property, or walk alone unattended in public. Readers in search of early stirrings of feminism will find them in the passionate outbursts of Brontes heroine in Jane Eyre and  Sue Bridehead in Jude the Obscure, or in the poetry of Mary Robinson. During the time in which Mary Robinson wrote, women were not credited for having made any  significant contributions to society. In fact, for the most part, they were still considered property by the male dominated society, having no rights, including inheritance from their own parents, rights  in court, the right to vote, or to handle money. This would have made any independent minded young woman chafe, to say the least, and would cause a great deal  of social alienation should she ever seek to breach the social confines that had been dictated. One of the greatest aspects of being human is the written language. No other  animal has been able to preserve its past and present for the sole purpose of sharing knowledge and passing the knowledge on to future generations. The truths that audiences and  readers received, from great works of literature created in the 1800s, still have the same impact on audiences today, it can be said. In several of the passages in  Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, it can be said to function as a sort of  pulse for the work. The way in which the word choice is selected, the repetition of imagery and tone all add flavor to the minds palate, offering more than the  written word, but a sense of motion, emotion and motivation. Her poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, certainly captures the motion and emotion of a strong woman who is condemned for going