To The Ladies

Lady Chudleigh writes "To the Ladies' to all women who are or are not married. She expresses her inner most feelings toward marrige and eximplifies that come from marriage; in her own voice. When reading Chudleigh's work you come to the conclusion that she opposes marriage all together. Chudleigh propses that by getting married you become a slave to your spouse. From the beginning she writes, "Wife and servant are the same, But only differ in the name: For when that fatal knot is tied; Which nothing, nothing can divide." Theses words alone create a dark and hurtful mood for the poem, they suggest that marriage is only a forever binding bond to be a loyal servant to a man. Lady Mary Chudleigh certainly has a negative outlook on marriage and it allows the reader to ponder: is this truley how marriage worked in her time, what happened to create these dreadful inferences in her mind?