"I hate them as I hate sex,
the man’s mouth
sealing my mouth, the man’s
paralyzing body—"
describing the power that men have over women, especially while having sex.
She also describes the noises that occur when having sex as negative,
"and the cry that always escapes,
the low, humiliating
premise of union—"
I think the speaker is saying that she holds hope for men to treat women better, but they don't, and women continue to have sex with them, and then the next generation doesn't treat women any better
"that mounts and mounts and then
is split into the old selves,"
The poet believes women as a whole "were made fools of" because they continue to fall back into the old pattern. I think the flower is used throughout the poem because a flower grows and grows, then eventually produces offspring that is exactly the same as the flower before.
I am not sure exactly why she chose this specific flower, i know that they are white, so perhaps there was an undertone of innocence that exists in the flower but is not shown
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