Warning Jenny Joseph Poem

Warning Jenny Joseph Poem. Warning Warning Poem by Jenny Joseph WARNING (I SHALL WEAR PURPLE) Jenny Joseph When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me The poem begins with the speaker describing a number of different things she is going to be able to do when she is an "old woman." All of these things are impossible now because of one's ingrained sense of what is socially acceptable.


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Joseph's best known poem, "Warning", was written in 1961 when she was 28 And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandles, and say we've no money for butter

I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells And run my stick along the public railings And make up for the sobriety of my youth. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandles, and say we've no money for butter The poem begins with the speaker describing a number of different things she is going to be able to do when she is an "old woman." All of these things are impossible now because of one's ingrained sense of what is socially acceptable.

. In a humorous, tongue-in-cheek and fun way, Jenny Joseph conveys a serious message for all, to never take. The "Warning" poem by English poet Jenny Joseph (born May 7, 1932 in Birmingham) is one such poem, because I hear her speaking to each of us, male or female, in an ode to nonconformity, one of my personal favorite rants and topics

. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves Jenny Joseph Warning is featured in an anthology of much-loved poems and other verse forms written in English