The Life and Death of Mrs. Tidmuss: An Epic of Insignificance (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The poem shakes us with the accusation that we are accustomed to turn~both simple and sensitized beings into living clay. Here the terrible transformation takes place stanza by stanza in the events of a routine which we accept. There is no degradation which we will ofli cially admit. There is childhood, girlhood, womanhood, Wifehood, motherhood. But its other names are, after childhood, four phases of living clay, and then death. The poem celebrates the ruin of no great potentiality; it cele brates merely something pitiful and joyous and wistful, slowly rotted by a routine which we not only accept but glorify. It is the immemorial waste of womankind, and so of mankind. It is the infinite daily murder.

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