"To the Ladies"

"To the Ladies" by Lady Chudleigh shows how, as a woman, she needs to value and appreciate herself no matter what the men do. According to her, living a life filled with happiness, a woman, like herself, must be accepting to themselves and not care as to what men think, even if they despise a woman. As long as women are proud, they are wise-wise in their conducting of the happiness of life. Even though women and servant are ultimately the same thing to a man, she ends the poem by saying "Value your selves, and Men despise, You must be proud, if you'll be wise" (Chudleigh 950) which clear iterates her opinion to be proud as whomever she desires to be, nevertheless of the hatred she may receive from men.
This poem and the short story "Eveline" do indeed have aspects that intertwine. The entire poem, "To the Ladies" relates to the ultimate decision of Eveline in the end to stay in Dublin. Oh Eveline. So much potential! She could have escaped and gone to the beautiful city of Buenos Aires, but nooooooooo, she couldn't decide for literally her life and opted to stay in the dreary city of Dublin where she was forced to take care of her family and continue living life looking out her window at what could have been and what her life could have been with Frank. This indecision, this lost opportunity, to be free, is what Lady Chudleigh is attempting to portray in her poem, and if only these two were best friends, maybe, just maybe, would Eveline gain the guts to take a risk and be free from Dublin. "And never any Freedom take:" (Chudleigh 950). Lady Chudleigh only wished for freedom, but instead accepted herself with what she had, and was proud of it.
So, basically, Eveline did not "carpe diem" or seize the day with her potential to turn a struggle for freedom into the opposite, whereas Lady Chudleigh, based on her yearning to be free and self-confidence, would have captured the opportunity in an instant. If only, if only. Cry us a river. Oh Eveline. Sigh.