Sous-Entendu By Anne Stevenson

The poem I have chosen was Sous-entendu written by Anne Stevenson which is a poem written from a women point of view, which show how men see women. The way we get a to see that see how men perspective women as object because they often want more then an emotional connection. The poem describes a typical womanizer. The first stanza does a good job in showing how men tend to create a relationship with some women, and how they see that as naïve. I like how the poet, counter argues that women are not as naïve as men believe to be. The women don’t want the men to be there just when he need to be physically pleasured, but through out all the events in her life. Men give the illusion that they care, but also women understand men to be faking, and