Marriage and the culture that supports it have effected the character in this poem greatly. ... The tigers obviously have a very significant symbolic purpose in this poem. ... Adrienne Rich expresses some feminist concern in this poem. ... The style and format of the poem is symbolic of Aunt Jennifer's reality. ... This poem expresses itself with a sort of confidence that is rare. ...
This is a narrative poem which means that it tells a story. ... It is a modern poem with feminist evidence. ... He is treated as a 'sex object' in the poem. ... Structure The structure of the poem is unconventional for a love poem. ... This adds informal tone to the poem. ...
This possesses a problem for the fact that maybe the initial meaning of the poem would not be attained by all of the readers. ... This makes it hard for me to relate or learn from the poem because I feel that Pope is comparing small superficial qualities like beauty to bigger more meaningful things such as self-pride and intelligence. ... Being able to relate to the issues in the poem yet not being able to relate to the characters makes for a lengthy and tedious story line. Yet the manner is which the poem is written is well organized and allows for easy reading and following. Although I d...
Plath feels her father stopped loving her by dying and in the poem she writes "Daddy, I have had to kill you.... "Lady Lazarus" is a poem reflecting Plath's suicide attempts. ... Plath makes reference to this resurrection in many lines of the poem such as "The peanut-crunching crowd/Shoves into see ... Plath seems to get a laugh out of the taunting the male gender in her poems, and for some ill fated reason she enjoys the attention. ... Her expressions of her inner depression was written in her later poems, which was therapeutic for her. ...
The persona in the poem finds that she lacks one because she has been stereotyped as a "mother." ... The woman persona in the poem fantasizes about a samurai who could "hush the howling baby," and "recite her haiku." The first two stanzas of the poem describe a harsher environment. ... Two poems that explore these issues are "The Carnival of Venice," and "Long after Heine." ... The structure of both poems also allows Harwood to criticise society's construction and oppression of women. ...
She wrote her poems while rearing eight children, functioning as a hostess, being a good wife, and performing other domestic duties. ... Bradstreet is very critical about her works and it shows in her poems. ... Bradstreet's ability to be too hard on her writings only led to her writing fantastic poems. Overall, Bradstreet's poem is a sharing of her desire to be recognized and respected as a writer during a time when the majority was male. ... As a very talented writer, she was sure to put her heart and soul into each poem she wrote. ...
Amanda Portefield writes that "while Bradstreet's poems testify to her dependency on her husband, to her feelings of insufficiency without him, and to her worship of the potency he represented, they also reflect her power to establish the context of his authority and her efforts to control his behavior."" ... Jane Donahue Eberwein is one critic who points to generic debates about women in developing an alternative to both submissive and subversive readings of some of her gender poems like "The Prologue,"" insisting that this poem is best read as "consistently ironic, inviting both male an...
Amanda Portefield writes that "while Bradstreet's poems testify to her dependency on her husband, to her feelings of insufficiency without him, and to her worship of the potency he represented, they also reflect her power to establish the context of his authority and her efforts to control his behavior."" ... Jane Donahue Eberwein is one critic who points to generic debates about women in developing an alternative to both submissive and subversive readings of some of her gender poems like "The Prologue,"" insisting that this poem is best read as "consistently ironic, inviting both male an...
Although a man, the poem's subject possesses feminine charms superior to a woman, with "An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling" (5). ... The painful duality of the speaker's muse is loudly echoed in Shakespeare's structural choices for the poem. ... Sonnets in particular were used for professing love to female lovers and paramours, yet this poem professes adoration of a man. ... However, the true heart of the poem lies in the curiosity of its meter, which suffers like our subject with the constraining repercussions of excess. ... Indeed, the meter sets t...
Emily Dickinson's, poem, "The Wife" reveals the poet's concerns for domestic femininity in middle-class families through expressing the gender roles of females and using the term "wife" frequently. Although she could never be a wife in her lifetime, the reflection of self-private and the domesticity of household females could be seen in the poem through the contrasts in the three stanzas. Evidently, the persona of the poem is female, and conventionalities of marriage are expressed from the perspective of a female. ... Pick out the last word of each line, that, sta...
In addition, in the chapter "Minerva Writes Poems," Sandra Cisneros depicts the sad existence of a girl not much older than Esperanza. ... After putting her children to bed, Minerva spends her nights writing heart-breaking poems that she folds into little pieces and grips in her hand (p.84)." ...
According to Marge Piercy in her Barbie Doll poem," wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy"(338). ... In the "Barbie doll" poem they gave the girl girl's toys and expected her to be a certain way like girls are. ... Society has made it so that most girls are supposed to look and even act a certain way as in the "Barbie doll" poem or they will be rejected by society. ...
Man and woman. Husband and wife. Have you never noticed why these phrases are never mentioned the other way around? Despite the so-called equality of the sexes in present popular culture, why does the awkwardness in saying "woman and man- or "wife and husband- still persist? The answer lies in ...
In the poem, "Anonymous, Gilgamesh", the role of Gilgamesh, at the very first sight of him, is one who possesses the characteristics of beauty, strength, and the ability to do greatness for his city, Uruk. ... Gilgamesh is an epic poem of love, but contains grief that has a real change on his character, which causes him to have major flaws in his life as a ruler, which results in a cruel treatment upon the citizens that he reigns over. ...
Many of the characters in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight have supernatural powers. This is true with not only male characters but female as well. Though women are shown with a large role, their role is not a positive one in this tale. Instead of showing the female characters as individuals the unkn...
In the poem "One's-Self I Sing" Walt Whitman describes the modern man as an equal, separate person through his fullness of power, and longing for intelligence and beauty, the modern man of today could be similar to the modern man described in the poem. In this poem the quote "Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far," is saying that neither facial features nor intelligence by themselves will take you far. ...
In the poem "Barbie Doll," written by Marge Piercy, evidence shows this idea in the poet's use of irony, her attitude on the subjects of both inner and outer beauty, and her attitude on the significance of words interfering with a woman's self-confidence. Piercy employs the stylistic device of irony throughout her poem. ... Along a similar path of pressures of conformity, is the poem, "The Woman Hanging From the Thirteenth Floor Window" by Joy Harjo. ...
She advocates for women's freedom from the career of being a housewife and strives to make more of herself as a writer, and by promoting herself in her own works by encouraging that her books and poem be bought, she breaks down the stereotype that women can not only simply yearn for more than what they have given to them, but do whatever is in their power to achieve it. ... In Lanyer's poem "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum", which she says came from divine intuition before she even wrote the poem, she argues the facts that women where looked down upon because of their responsibili...
Lady Chudleigh's 16th century poem To the Ladies, instructs a woman to reflect long and hard on the word "Obey" when vowing her heart, hand and life in marriage. She indicates that a woman will lose not only her autonomy, but must also forgo all rights to her own ideas, personality, and her sense o...
This is an amazing story. Poe's development of the narrator is extremely interesting to me. It is obvious that the narrator cannot handle that his wife is not only beautiful, but also intelligent. It's like he is fascinated that a woman can we beautiful and intelligent. In the past and even in t...
In what ways does the Industrial Revolution affect the opportunities and constraints in women's lives in the 19th century? In the 19th century women were expected to live in the home and be constrained to the affairs of the household and family (children, her husband). The average woman had ...
Men have always found ways to control women. In both "Female Circumcision: Rite of Passage or Violation of Rights? " (Althaus) and "Footbinding " (Fairbank) the authors explain two especially gruesome methods of female mutilation that have been and still are used to dominate women. Female circumcisi...
Imagine, for a moment, love without gender. Is it possible? Some see love as sexual feelings attached to sexual attributes. For these people, love is very much dependent on gender. It is the driving force which sparks an initial interest and paves the way for love to develop. For others, tho...
What role did women play in Greek society? How has the Greeks" view of women influenced our own? The role of women in Greek society and the Greeks view of women will be exposed. It was found that men and women were not treated equal. I found that men by nature were important and the female were l...
Every culture, race, and society has traits specific to itself and to the people who embody it. The Latino American culture portrayed by this book is no different having prominent themes and traits seen in the characters and repeated throughout the novel. Much underlying plot can be taken and inte...
