Margaret Cavendish's "The Poetess's Hasty Resolution"

Here we will go
Here we will go
Here we will go now . . .

"Reading my verses, I liked them so well,

Self-love did make my judgment to rebel.

Thinking them so good, I thought more to write;

Considering not how others would them like."

Just like any writer (or poet for that matter) . . . everything is a masterpiece. And that fact overrides everything (much like with me and my skit)- even others.

"I writ so fast, I thought, if I loved long

A pyramid of fame to build thereon.

Reason observing which way I was so bent,

Did stay my hand, and asked me what I meant;"

Show me a writer that doesn't want fame (or to be remembered . . . ) and I'll say that person is a liar . . . but there's always obstacles to doing anything

"Will you, said she, thus waste your time in vain,

On that which in the world in the world small praise shall gain?

For shame, leave off, said she, the printer spare,

He'll lose by your ill poetry, I fear."

It's impossible to please everybody and this detractor (who may or not be a friend) is in the way of the narrator's dreams . . .

"Besides the world hath already such a weight

Of useless books, as it is overfraught,

Then pity take, do the world a good turn,

And all you write cast in the fire, and burn."

pretty mean . . . love that second couplet though

"Angry I was, and Reason struck away,

When I did hear, what she to me did say.

Then all in haste I to the press it sent,

Fearing persuasion might my book prevent."

Interestingly enough . . . the narrator lost confidence, but anger (good all anger) enabled the narrator to still follow her dream.

"But now tis done, with grief repent do I,

Hang down my head with shame, blush, sigh, and cry.

Take pity, and my drooping spirits raise,

Wipe of my tears with handkerchiefs of praise."

Kind of pathetic but it works because it forces the readers to feel for the narrator (no one likes cocky people (which is why Chris Dougherty got sent home on American Idol even though he was probably the best -too cocky))

As a whole . . . find this interesting because it is very feminine especially at the close and it's kinda nice to see something from this time with a woman's touch. Also like the fact that reason was a her- nice touch