Question #3) Why does Sexton call her poem a spoof?
Sexton calls her poem a spoof because she ridicules the reader as she introduces people in the “Venus and the Ark” as two male Ph.D’s picking all these animals that are disgusting and not sophisticated as the two Ph.D’s. She makes the two men suffer as to making the reader suffer . Also, she talks about the missile which could mean the nuclear weapons that kills the people. She shows little or no hope for those two men as if there were no hope for the world of reality. Other resources indicate that she did not trust people and thought them as potential intimates, to be causing chaos. Also, she clearly puts Venus as a source of downfall of the people as Venus was exploded, the two men had nothing left and suffer amongst the lonely Earth
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