Njou addresses various issues within this poem, a woman's search for true contentment, spiritually and culturally, a woman's liberation from her traditional roles and the problems resulting from cultural conflicts. All too often we are fooled into thinking that economic and material goods are what we need to feel fulfilled and content with life. This is not the case "Prayer of a Modern Woman" is about a woman who has an abundance of material wealth …
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…that she may be able to instill those values in her children, so they won't have to go through life feeling shallow. I feel this poem really describes the modern world and way of thinking. Many of us don't realize that money doesn't buy happiness. True happiness is spiritual not material. Sometimes we work so hard to gain the material objects that we crave that along that path we end up loosing sight of ourselves.