This may be an unwelcome remark, but when I read the poem I thought not of a religious reformer but of a feminist, or perhaps some other sort of political reformer. (I read the poem first, commentary after.) Taken that way, the speaker's attitude seems, in the context of the presumptively Christian times, a little more ambivalent about the reforms being pushed.
This may be an unwelcome remark, but when I read the poem I thought not of a religious reformer but of a feminist, or perhaps some other sort of political reformer. (I read the poem first, commentary after.) Taken that way, the speaker's attitude seems, in the context of the presumptively Christian times, a little more ambivalent about the reforms being pushed.
Oh, that's actually lovely. And true.