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Show Male Critic Severe on ' Work of Women Poets If an effort were made to determine deter-mine what elements constitute . feminine fem-inine poetry, one would name tirst its chief characteristic subjectivity. When a woman writes poetry her emotions generally center around tier-self tier-self and she Is only interested in the world as something that retlects favorably fa-vorably or unfavorably on her own individuality. It Is usually favorable and when unfavorable, wallingly agonized, agon-ized, writes Herbert G. Brunchen, In the North American Review. As an artist It is rarely that a woman wo-man cun translate her emotions objectively ob-jectively ; in other words to comprehend compre-hend the world and the human beings that are part of It not as they touch herself, hut as they affect the great lot of humanity. Feminine poetry, moreover, when It Is cheerful. Is generally so in a superficial super-ficial way; It Is too often over-refined through an erroneous und typically feminine conception of the . difference between refinement and truth. It Is embroidery poetry, very apt to be sentimental sen-timental and cloyingly 6weet. 1 And only in rare Instances does one find a poem written by a woman where the unpleasantness and even tragic truths of human relationships have not been carefully censored or glossed over. |