Dickinson's powerful emotions can be perceived in poem 441, where she speaks of her own writings within her poetry. ... These poems also express her status of being a woman in a man's world. ... This playful poem touches on a theme often used by Bradstreet, discussing her poetry within her poetry. ... Poem 199 states: "This being comfort "then That other kind "was pain " But why compare? ... In Bradstreet's "The Prologue,"" she gives insights which forms a culmination of all her other poems. ...

• Word Count: 1953
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

This is the second part of a poem written from the perspective of a man thinking of a woman he once loved, a decade after her wedding. From this poem we take out that in the 50's middle class women are beginning to make careers on their own without the help of a male figure. ... From the poem, it is perceived that the man seems to resent having not followed his heart toward the woman he loved. ... On page 632, Rich writes, "And there were all those poems about women, written by men: it seemed to be a given that men wrote poems and women frequently inhabited them. ... In poems, women w...

• Word Count: 1531
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The self-awareness Bradstreet had of her ability to write and it's implications for other women manifests at times in her poems, such as in her poem "In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory:" Now say, have women worth, or have they none? ... (Bradstreet 44) These lines betray the subtle sarcasm apparent in several of Bradstreet's poems. ... In her poem "Prologue" Anne Bradstreet argues unmistakably in favor of female intellect, and challenges the views of the day that women couldn't write: I am obnoxious to each carping ton...

• Word Count: 2469
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Sylvia Plath became known as a feminist writer through her poems that exposed patriarchal oppression. In her poem titled "Lady Lazarus," Plath exploits the viciousness of her male dominator as he makes a spectacle of repeatedly pulling her back to life after her suicide attempts. ... By writing this poem, Plath points out how her entire existence is controlled by a man. ... Within "Lady Lazarus", Sylvia Plath presents an opposite depiction of the patriarchal female gender role by posing the woman within this poem directly against her oppressor as opposed to remaining cheerful...

• Word Count: 2160
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The Epic of Gilgamesh" an collection of old Sumerian poems, is filled with the dramatic interactions of gods and men, rulers and peasants, humans and beasts, and men and women. ... Such a prospect reveals much information about Gilgamesh, the setting of the poems. ...

• Word Count: 1389
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Of course the husband was never supposed to find out about his wife's love of another man, but in nearly all of the poems and lais the beloved was a married woman and the lover a married man. ... The idea of not being in love with the person but of being "in love with love- can certainly be applied to a lot of the poems and feelings present in the 13th through 17th centuries. ...

• Word Count: 1444
• Approx Pages: 6

Through their writings, Fuller and Bradstreet expressed their opinions about equality of the sexes and religious tension in their prose and poems so that their readers would finally understand what women in a world full of men are actually reflecting upon. ... In her long poem, "Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666,"" Bradstreet relies heavily on her relationship with God as she depicts how God affects every aspect of her life. ...

• Word Count: 1980
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When looking at the similarities between Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and As You Like It, the most obvious connections lie in the manner in which the two main female roles both disguise themselves as men within the plays. But with an even deeper look into this phenomenon one can begin to see that th...

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Michelle Norvell English 111, Donna Ladd Contrast essay- 2/11 The Proof that Men and Women are NOT Alike Men are a mystery to me, and no matter what anyone has said or proven, men and woman are not alike. They are different as night and day. Men think, act, and respond to life in obscure w...

• Word Count: 1333
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Here in the plays of William Shakespeare, poems of Edgar Allen Poe, the stories of Jonathan Swift and/or other predominantly male literary forms, that she encountered would she experience her first taste of true literary art. ...

• Word Count: 1471
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

WOMEN IN ANCIENT EGYPT Women in the ancient times of Egypt have been depicted in various ways according to different historical perspectives. Their role in marriage life has been discussed in different records thus leading to some different conclusions. It was thought that women had an equal posi...

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

-Source13 Noble women may have watched torments every lady had her favourite knight and the knights tried to impress the ladies by writing poems and songs for them, normally no relationships came out of this. ...

• Word Count: 1469
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The sexes are different because their brains are different. (Moir, 1991) In the past ten years, there have been many researches concerning what makes the sexes different. Remarkably, these doctors, scientists, psychologists, and sociologists are not working together but still have arrived at a ve...

• Word Count: 1744
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

-Source13 Noble women may have watched torments every lady had her favourite knight and the knights tried to impress the ladies by writing poems and songs for them, normally no relationships came out of this. ...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

American author Kate Chopin has written two published novels and over a hundred short stories. Most of her stories are set in her hometown of Louisiana and focus on the lives of women. Based on the literary criticisms researched, a lot Kate Chopin's works focused on female emancipation. The era she ...

• Word Count: 1852
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School