Not a Pretty Girl

Janis Ian: "At Seventeen"
Click on the At Seventeen link at this site to read the lyrics to Janis Ian's hit song about an "ugly duckling girl." Compare the message of Ani DiFranco's "Not a Pretty Girl" with Ian's song written twenty years earlier. What does a comparison of the two tell you about the times in which they were written? Which song do you think Virginia Woolf would prefer and why? Respond in the Web Links Activity Log.