Judge Of Honor

Another poem by Philips called, “To the truly competent Judge of Honour”, genuinely goes in-depth in the trials and tribulations of the abuse of a women’s honor in everyday situations. The whole reason Philips wrote this poem was to provide damage control to her friends on a rumor that J.J. started. Philips begins by explaining how honor differs from man to man, and how all things good are more than likely doomed and will be misunderstood by someone. (Lines 1-4) She continues, explaining how humans attempt to use symbolism for God, but instead end up worshiping idols. Receiving rights that weren’t good enough for men. Women must deal with false honor, rumors and whispers all from men if they feel like starting them. As a sacrifice, men make have the ability to make women disguise their true self, and imprison the women to not even have an opinion. (Line 8-11) Men were fully aware that they had complete control to build a woman up, or to completely destroy her, with just one breath. (Line 13) Women also understood that their true honor wasn’t very important, it’s the honor that others believe they have that can harm them. Even in today’s society, the effect of a single rumor can be catastrophic; the damage it could
S[wift] to Write a Poem Called the Lady’s Dressing Room” as a reply to Jonathan Swift’s “The Lady’s Dressing Room”, in which he describes a man’s first experience inside of a Lady’s dressing room. Swift describes in detail, the gross and embarrassing products, dirty clothes, and even the water closet of the lady’s room. The end result being the man, who once thought women to be goddesses, now finds them so disgusting that it ruined women for him entirely. Swift’s writing in The Lady’s Dressing Room is incredibly cruel. He even states, “such gaudy tulips raised from Dung” (line 145), explaining that he cannot believe something so disgusting came from something that is believed to be