Paragraph 2 (till line 10) Paragraph 2 finds the woman on the roof sunbathing again but this time she had tied a red scarf around her breasts and wore a brief red bikini pants. ... He lied to them apparently because "he wanted to keep what he had seen to himself: he had actually caught her in the act of rolling down the little red pants over her hips, till they were no more than a small triangle. ... Towards the end of this paragraph, again "the woman on the roof is sunbathing, face down and arms spread out, donning only a little red pants. ...

• Word Count: 4111
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

Feeling Poetry Linda McCarriston shapes feelings of anger, rage, contempt and healing in her poetry through narration, metaphors with detailed sensory language as she unfolds the painful story of sexual abuse and family abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. In an interview with Bill Moyers, Linda McCarriston states that "poetry allows the individual experience to strike like lightning through the collective institutional consciousness and to plumb the depths of actual communal experience so that what people don't want said in fact get said". (Moyers p. 272). Her simplest defini...

• Word Count: 3020
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In his apartment there are pictures of naked women, he even objectifies artistic figures (eyeing a naked statue of woman while walking by, staring at a women's breast in a religious book, drawing naked women in class as a child). ...

• Word Count: 4301
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate