Comparison and Contrast of Liz Rosenberg’s “the Silence of Women” and Marge Piercy’s “What’s That Smell in the Kitchen?”

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Samantha Crider Professor Cryderman English 1102 13 March 2013 Self-Assessment I found this paper to be much easier than the first. Not only was I more interested in the topics I was comparing, such as gender roles and patriarchy, but I also had a better understanding of the assignment as a whole. The most important part about this paper to me was my interest in it. I have a hard time writing, or even thinking about things that are of no interest to me. It was easier for me to understand the tone in these poems because of the diction used, and also because of my understanding of feministic rights. In this project, I chose to compare and contrast Marge Piercy’s, “What’s That Smell in the Kitchen,” and Liz Rosenberg’s, “The Silence of Women.” Because these poems both possessed an angry tone towards the role of patriarchy in the household, it was easy to compare them to one another. Both of these speakers were against patriarchy in the home. In contrast, each poet used different symbols to show the significance of the anger and rage these women felt towards their husbands. What I did differently in this essay as opposed to my first, I stopped over analyzing. I drove myself crazy on my last paper trying to make myself sound like I cared about what I was writing, and even to make it sound a little more educated. In hindsight, I should have just written it in a “dumbed down” version and then later changed what I thought would have worked better. For this paper, I just kept writing, and didn’t over analyze anything. In all honesty, I was shocked at the good feedback a received because I felt like I hadn’t made it anything special. The feedback on my draft helped me to understand that papers aren’t all about fancy terms and over analyzing yourself, but instead, just simply understanding the text, breaking it down for yourself, and writing about it in a way that

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