Poetry is seen to be one of the most sentimental and personal pieces of literature a person can write and they often do so to soothe any real-life problems they face out side of the literary world. Stevie Smith's characters in her poems often exhibit a lack of acceptance, but it is interesting to notice that each characters varies in terms of this sentiment. Some characters long for the acceptance of the outside world and …
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…bitter because of that. It is also significant that Smith was not a typical woman of her era and she did not conform to the post-WWI and pre-WWII era. She did not marry, have children and become a housewife as most women were expected to become, but was an independent woman with a successful career and therefore from this perspective, it can be argued that she did not entirely feel "at home in this world".