And so Davis's submissions to the canon are anti-submissions; her title poem fantasizes a work that "wasn't / influenced by homer or blake or yeats" and "contained no anxiety" and "hadn't even heard of / louise glück franz wright billy (budd) collins".
The story, here, is didactic: a woman's duty is submission, her education resignation, her labor housewifery, her weakness her charm, her decline a spectacle.
Although this had not been the essence of my submission, her anger was palpable as she held out photos of her emaciated sister.
To her, submission to her husband is respecting her husband.
What's most remarkable about Ruth, of course, is her submission to her tormenting mother, but that opaque compulsion can't be called a desire.
But LaVette pulled it off: The gestures she made — rolling her hands as if to gather momentum, letting her shoulders go slack in submission, slapping her hip as if to urge herself on, and raising her hands above her head to plead — were arresting, and her performance seemed startlingly authentic.
The gestures she made — rolling her hands as if to gather momentum, letting her shoulders go slack in submission, slapping her hip as if to urge herself on, and raising her hands above her head to plead — were arresting, and her performance seemed startlingly authentic.
In the crown prosecution's closing submissions at her trial on Thursday, Mark Tedeschi QC told the New South Wales supreme court that Monis was "quite prepared to place [Droudis] in extreme danger for his own selfish purposes".
Sarah says she does get a lot of troll submissions in her inbox, and she takes it upon herself to weed them out.
She isn't posting personal stories because media organisations are generally seen to be more credible than an individual's tale, and can act as an authenticator – though she does have a call for submissions on her website.
She plays at submission — curling her astonishing limbs to obey his will — before unleashing her own powers of steely resistance, fiercely contemptuous of the idea that a man can capture a woman's soul with the grip of a hand.
