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    A certain lady whose identity is unimportant to this question is the daughter of a former Harvard dean. She found the physical atmosphere of their National Register house with its dark brown woodwork and Victorian decor, as well as the intellectual atmosphere of their social circle, to be oppressive, intimidating, hypocritical, and meaningless. Can you furnish the first line of a poem by a well-known American poet that aptly conveys her sense of frustration with that lifestyle?

    Question #76377. Asked by queproblema. (Feb 25 07 9:33 PM)


    ainenei

    		Maybe "We are the hollow men", which is the first line of the poem "The Hollow Men by T.S. Elliot.

    http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~evans/hollow.html

    Feb 26 07, 12:31 AM
    queproblema

    		That's good, but not the one I have in mind.
    I'm looking for the first line of a poem that entirely deals with this subject. That's a third huge hint, after one in my statement and another in the actual question.

    Feb 26 07, 12:53 AM
    JaneofGaunt

    		Perhaps, "I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed..."
    by Edna St.Vincent Millay


    http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/ednamillay/7350

    Feb 26 07, 11:20 AM
    JaneofGaunt

    		Scratch that...the whole poem does not deal entirely with the subject.

    Feb 26 07, 12:42 PM
    queproblema

    		Right, scratch that one, but the first line does include a gender word.

    Feb 26 07, 12:51 PM
    lanfranco

    		I wonder whether you could be referring to E.E. Cummings' "The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls":



    http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/cummings/Cambridge.htm

    Feb 26 07, 3:02 PM
    queproblema

    		Bingo, Frankie!

    One free night in a minimalist hotel in Copenhagen for you.

    Feb 26 07, 4:16 PM

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