What is the theme, language, and style/structure of "Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry" by Edna St Vincent Millay?What is the theme (insights about life in...

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Edna St.
Vincent Millay was a feminist and activist for women's rights during the beginning of
the twentieth century. This can easily be seen in her
poem.

In terms of the theme, the poem "Oh, Oh, You Will Be
Sorry" is about the cultural and intellectual repression of women. The speaker has
obviously tried to have an rational, "educated" conversation with her husband, and he
has discredited her ability to handle a discussion of consequence by saying, "What a big
book for such a little head!"

The title would indicate that
her husband has misspoken, and the wife (the narrator) is highly offended; she promises
that she will never again try to engage him in any kind of "scholarly" debate. She will
not read in front of him, but will behave herself like men expect their women to act
during this time period: she will offer him a kiss, or a look at look at her newest hat.
She will love him and be "sweet and soft," but their relationship will not be the same
from this moment on.

This wife informs her husband that one
day he will knock and enter her room, but she will be gone, and he can just whistle for
her, for she will have no time for
him.

The theme here is about a woman being a man's equal in
terms of "brain function." This was not a popular concept during this era. On one hand,
women were a force to be reckoned with in terms of helping the poor, and supporting the
church and morals within society and the home. At the same time, they were also trying
to earn the right to vote, and it was a long, hard battle. Millay is not only expressing
her belief that men and women were equals, but offering words of warning to men who were
unable to see this or accept it.

In today's society, these
messages will be lost in that opportunities are available to women today that could not
have been imagined a hundred years ago. While it is said that women generally only earn
seventy percent of what men make for the same job, women are no longer relegated to
inferior jobs because of gender, and can seek education and employment just as men
do.