Lit majors and poetry gurus come in please.

[Gypsy]

WRONG FORUM SORRY

I am trying to recall the name (and author cause apparently I'm wrong) of a poem and all I remember is the message and not the lines of it.

It's written by a woman.

And the voice is that of a woman, who is having a fitting done ( I thought it was called The Fitting, but I can't find it under that title) and who meets her own eyes in the mirror and looks away, afraid of what she'll see.

The line I remember best is something like 'my ______ eyes meet my [own?] eyes in the mirror and shy away as if..." the ____ is the word I can't recall, but it means something like guarded.

I know. Not a hell of a lot to go on. I thought it was Plath, but I can't find anything like it under a search of her work.

Help?

ETA: Figured it out. It is called "the fitting" but it is by Millay and the line is: "my drooped eyes lifted to my guarded eyes in the glass, and glanced away as from someone they had never met"

Thanks.

 

[Circe]

Heheheheh - oh, man, Gypsy, I have SO been there. I remember once I was looking for a poem by Carol Anne Duffy - "Mrs. Beast." The problem is, I only vaguely remembered the premise (a poem written by Beauty about what it was like to marry a monster, and how in a lot of ways, those ladies were the luckier ones), and one line.

"The drop-dead gorgeous bride of the Bearded Lesbian never bluffed."

Yeah. Just imagine the Google hits you get off that one ....

P.S. http://www.freewebs.com/carolannduffypoems/Mrs Beast.htm

 

[yssie]

Circe - ::snort::

The software we use to write papers is called LaTeX. Really gotta wonder what they were thinking...