Friday, April 16, 2010

Water-Bailing Comments

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Not a drop of rain for this dry heat!
Come, girls, let's go bail water.
Let's drag our delta-shaped buckets to that huge square field
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Ho Xuan Huong
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Susan Williams 03 October 2015

I read that she often wrote poems heavy with sexual innuendo. Looking at this piece that way certainly changes this from a poem about women working in the rice fields to women working in a different area all together.

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