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Analysis and comments on Business Girls by John Betjeman

Comment 3 of 3, added on May 25th, 2006 at 12:04 PM.

It's about prostitutes and their sex with lack of love. He's portraying it as a rather miserable situation to be in. I don't think it has anything to with actual business women. Just lonely ones who sell their bodies.

me. from United Kingdom
Comment 2 of 3, added on March 27th, 2006 at 4:53 AM.

Yes. this poem is about my eternal love for laura

Adam taylor from Canada
Comment 1 of 3, added on February 18th, 2006 at 5:13 PM.

Anyone who can remember guysers - those upright, cylindrical gas water heaters by Ascot of the 1950s - might imagine this poem to be about the past. Ironically, in these days when there are more single person households than ever before, it seems to have a prophetic quality that is not confined to gender. Behind the facade of modern lifestyles and expensive city dwellings remain the 'unloved' ones who's busy working lives conceal and deny the loneliness of their existence.

Paul Cooper from United Kingdom



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Poet: John Betjeman
Poem: Business Girls
Added: Apr 8 2005
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