Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SOCIALIST AND THE SUFFRAGIST, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the socialist to the suffragist Last Line: "just get into the game!" Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Elections; Socialism; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism | ||||||||
Said the Socialist to the Suffragist: "My cause is greater than yours! You only work for a Special Class, We work for the gain of the General Mass, Which every good ensures!" Said the Suffragist to the Socialist: "You underrate my Cause! While women remain a Subject Class, You never can move the General Mass, With your Economic Laws!" Said the Socialist to the Suffragist: "You misinterpret facts! There is no room for doubt or schism In Economic Determinism- It governs all our acts!" Said the Suffragist to the Socialist: "You men will always find That this old world will never move More swiftly in its ancient groove While women stay behind! " "A lifted world lifts women up," The Socialist explained. "You cannot lift the world at all While half of it is kept so small," The Suffragist maintained. The world awoke, and tartly spoke: "Your work is all the same: Work together or work apart, Work, each of you, with all your heart- Just get into the game!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD HEMATITE HEIRLOOM LIVES ON (MAYBE DECEMBER 1980) by ALICE NOTLEY ON THE BEACH by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA FEMINIST POEM NUMBER ONE by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER HYPOCRITE SWIFT by LOUISE BOGAN FOR A GODCHILD, REGINA, ON THE OCCASION OF HER FIRST LOVE by TOI DERRICOTTE HESTER'S SONG by TOI DERRICOTTE A CONSERVATIVE by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN |
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