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Body of a Woman Summary
In lines 1-4, the poet is describing the body of a woman as white-fleshed, lying helplessly in surrender, vulnerable to advance. He is using the body of a woman as a metaphor for the earth. He is saying that the woman is the earth - Mother Earth, giver of live. He describes his own body as rough, peasant and unworthy by comparison, digging into her, spoiling her. He is using himself as a metaphor for mankind, treading upon the earth. In the fourth line, he describes the son leaping from the depth of the earth, a metaphor for the birth that is inevitable when earth and mankind, or woman and man, intermingle. The son, the by product, is the impact that mankind has had on the earth.
In lines 5-8, the poet describes himself as empty as...
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