Ms Austen | Lyrical Literacy Homage to Jane Austen

Ms Austen |  Lyrical Literacy Homage to Jane Austen

 

The Lyrical Literacy podcast presents a poetic homage to Jane Austen, the revolutionary author who wielded her pen with subtle defiance against Regency-era conventions. This evocative poem captures Austen's essence as a writer who, beneath the veneer of propriety and tea cups, crafted stories that challenged social norms and exposed the follies of the aristocracy. Through elegant verse, we explore how Austen remained "small and still, yet fiercely wrote what the world dared only think," using her literary genius to create female characters who whispered loudly through history. The poem honors her as an unmarried woman "always wed to truth and irony," whose seemingly gentle stories contained razor-sharp social commentary that continues to resonate centuries later.

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Ms Austen

Small and still
Yet fiercely
Wrote
What the world
Dared only
Think

Tea cups clinked and manners blinked
Between the sighs of
Not quite love
She stitched with ink a
Wild rebellion
Beneath lace gloves

Never married
Always wed
To
Truth
And irony
A quiet knife
Behind the smile

Dear Jane they said sweet auntie plain
But books don't bow nor blush nor bend
And every dashing duke she made
Became
A
Fool
By the end

She knew the price of being good
Too good
And gently crashed the parlor doors
With commas sharp and women
Loud
In whispers

Austen is a verb you see
It means
To burn with grace
And hide your fire
In a fan

So now we sit
And sip
And turn
Her
Pages
Soft
As thunder

 

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