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The saying that “war is for men, women is to be at home and take care of domestic affair” was universally accepted by people during the 20th century, when wars surged and both man and woman were given certain responsibilities; hers at home and his on the battlefield. The world in the 21st century is socially modernized by the idea that men and women are equal and women can do and can speak for herself for what is right to them. However, when conflicts and wars take place, women remain the unsound people to suffer from loss and could not do anything to recover her pain. In the poem “Implosion” by Adrienne Rich, we can see this cry and pleading for a stoppage, both for the war and for the patriarchal society in which men are responsible for what become women’s laments. In “Implosions”, The speaker is pleading her lover not to join the war and mourning over the outbreak of war which could bring her misery and loss. She wanted to choose the most irritating words to describe the ugliness of the war and to distract him from it.
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