When I Grow Old I Shall Wear Purple
When I am old, do I want to wear a hat?
Although she is quite old, Joseph was twenty when she wrote it.
Similarly, people ask, when I get older, do I want purple?
If I am an older woman, I should wear purple with a red hat that doesn’t fit and doesn’t fit me. And I’ll spend my pension on brandy, summer gloves and satin candles and say we don’t have any money for butter.
What is Jenny Joseph warning of?
Jenny Joseph’s warning describes what the future holds as we age and let go of social pressures and expectations.
So who wrote the poem when I was old should I have purple?
Jenny JosephWhere was Jenny Joseph born?
Birmingham, UK
How many have enjoyed moments of happy grace?
How many have loved your moments of happy grace and have loved your beauty with false or true love But a man loved the soul that basked in you and loved the pain of your changing face.
Why do you think Jenny Joseph called her poem her warning?
Jenny Joseph’s poem Warning is an optimistic prediction and vision of the nature of age and the social interpretation of behavior. In the poem you explain that in old age you can do these things because you are no longer judged.
When I am old should I wear purple and red?
He is perhaps best known for his opening lines: If I’m an older woman, I should wear purple / With a red hat that doesn’t fit and doesn’t fit me. Although it was an old age, Joseph was twenty when she wrote it.
