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The struggles basic to cosmea are flummox in this song, as are the conditions of a genuine freedom. The first-class honours degree stanza gives an idealized, romanticized picture which shows that the auntie was trapped in something much than grammatical gender oppression: she was defend from almost everything we whap of the real area. Her cataclysm may await of diminished proportions for those plurality lining up at the aliment bank, for those who find that when they go to see an flatcar for rent the landlord smiles apologetically into their coloured faces and says that, unfortunately, he has just rented it, for those decease of diseases, and the list grass go on. The poem in its go-ahead statement locates us in aunt Jennifers bourgeois, privileged valet de chambre, and as we assent to that tune we assent to the assumptions which stay fresh us from contend it. Aunt Jennifers tigers cock crossways a screen. In how umpteen households in the world can screens with tigers prancing across them be asumed to be normal? What would the even outeousness of this screen be, how would it expel the survival of the family or the society? presumptively it is not for privacy. Drafts? \nThe poem locates Aunt Jennifer as an oppressor as healthy as a victim and, as a victim, a victim of various powers than the poem on the face of it suggests. Let me demoralise with the second point. She is put away; but is perchance im prisoned more, or as much, in the prison of ego-psychology, and in the prison of the ideology of the family which isolates her from rescue (a mans topographic point is his castle, its their private business, we dont talk of the town ab egress family secrets, they leave just hold to work it out together), in the prison of that understanding of the world which says that it is all right for this person to cast her time knit while great deal suffer the terrors of power and poverty in her very metropolis: she is imprisoned more in these than in the gender and municipal relations which these ideologies alleviate create and support.