<p>Sometimes the analogy is made not between poetry and childbearing proper, but bet-ween poetry and an idealized domesticity. Here is the versifier Phyllis McGinley writing in an advertisement for and in the New York Times: »I know a remarkable woman who is a true artist, domestic version. She creates an atmosphere in which her children and her husband can move with delight and peace, pouring out all the passion which Emily Dickinson might have spent on perfecting a stanza or - to update the comparison - as Joan Sutherland does on interpreting an aria.