From The Antique

Question 1

weary

Answer 1

“It’s a weary life, she said: / Doubly blank in a woman’s lot:”

theme of the undervaluing of women. to reinforce it, ‘It is’, and then ‘Doubly blank.’ for many, life is joyless.

Question 2

wish

Answer 2

“I wish and I wish I were a man”

ADH “it was like being a man”