As a result, those people found themselves a little expose and decided to tell their own side story about her. Thus, Yo is described from point of views of different narrators in each chapter creating a unique personality and character of her and providing the readers a unique insight about Yo, the protagonist. The author successfully created a protagonist “who never tells her own story yet one who comes to life vibrantly through the miscellany of impressions and observations that people make about her” (Shuman, “¡Yo!,” par. 2). In this novel, Julia Alvarez manages to capture and express the true feelings of women which deconstructs the stereotypes through Yo.
Statements The novel, Kelroy, by Rebecca Rush was a story about love written during a time period in which a woman’s livelihood depended on it. The word “love” is used very loosely in this context. The novel, “Kelroy exposes a social system that limits the physical, educational, professional, and economic aspirations of women” (Kelroy xxi). According to Dana Nelson, it can be speculated that the tensions in various characters might come from Rush’s personal, “frustrations in her own ambitions” (xxi). Rebecca Rush was thirty-three years of age and single when her novel was published.
But then tragedy struck when Michael and Gary’s mother met a man who then became their step father. Michael was constantly abused and molested by their step father. It all went downhill from there; Michael slowly started to drift in insanity. One cold dark night Michael snuck into his mother’s bedroom and placed a knife to his step father’s neck and cut off his head and right leg and disposed of the body under his bed. Then one morning Michaels’ mother was cleaning his room and she found the body of the step father and knowing what Michael has done she killed herself not being able to live with what he had done.
The poem Love in Place by Nikki Giovanni (Barnet, Burto, & Cain, 2011) is a look back at a person’s past, critically contemplating whether she ever did fall in love. Looking at the overall poem the theme appears to ask the question as to whether or not love really was a part of her life. Love can be so subjective even to the same person. For example, even in this short poem Nikki seemingly crosses over generations looking back over old photographs. Her thoughts and feelings seem to contradict at times almost as if she is losing her memory.
With the image of a family fighting and angry with each other gives a very good example of one's effect with this disease. Depending on the type of schizophrenia a individual would feel very angry, violent and a numerous other symptoms (www.goole.com/health). “Certain doors were locked at night, feet stood there for hours outside them, dishes were left unwashed, the cloth disappeared under the hardened crust. The house came to miss the shouting voices, the threats, the half apologies, noisy reconciliations, the sobbing that followed” (5-11). In the beginning of this stanza there is a good image of people just waiting there for a individual.
This is the case for Emily Dickinson and her poetry, as well as two very different texts, ‘Walking Naked’ by Alyssa Brugman and the play ‘Stolen’ by Jane Harrison. They all show the desire to belong by several individuals, and all express the same issues that connect them, even though their stories are all vastly dissimilar to each other. Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 and ever since adolescence; she felt a lack of connection with the human social world. Her unusual connection with nature however had become her outlet of her lack of belonging in society. Her poetry very much reflects this, and she advises the audience subtly in her writing that it is not society’s fault that she cannot live in the regular social world, but she just needs something that society doesn’t give her.
Repossession of Irish Literature: Eavan Boland Eavan Boland outlines in her essay “Outside History” the misrepresented experiences of Irish women in the poetic tradition. She explains the way in which the “intersection of womanhood and Irish” leads to the simplification of the real experience of women within the culture. To explore how Irish women poets have created an authentic place for the experience of women in the poetic tradition, one can trace themes of real experience through poems by Boland. As a woman poet in a typically male dominated disciple, she connects Irish women across generations and reinvents the use of myths and history to define the real experience of being both Irish and a woman. In looking at Boland’s poems, “Outside History”, “The Making of an Irish Goddess” and “The Pomegranate”, evidence of the human complexities of Irish women allows for their removal from poetry as simplified icons.
Jesse Smith Close Reading Anna Barbauld’s poem, “The Rights of Woman,” has a controversial debate, describing how women should take over and rule the world. Baurbauld was a poet, a freethinker but she wasn’t considered a feminist. In the poem, Barbauld acknowledges, “But hope not, courted idol of mankind, on this proud eminence secure to stay”(25). Meaning she’s advising women to stand up and play a higher role than men. But in reality she is scared to voice her true goal of the passage.
April 4, 2013 Attitudes Towards Women in John Donne’s Poems John Donne’s Songs and Sonnets, considered to be his most popular since they were published in 1633, challenge the popular Petrarchan sonnet tradition of the time in which women’s beauty features were described (Greenblatt 1372). Donne’s poems about love and women tell the reader very little about the women, yet some of the Songs and Sonnets provide various representations of women that are often argued to be misogynistic. In this paper three of Donne’s Songs and Sonnets – “Song”, “Woman’s Constancy” and “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”- will be examined their misogynistic elements will be explored and discussed in the context of Donne`s life and the English society during Elizabethan England (1558 to 1603) and the Jacobean era during the reign of James 1 (1602-1625). Donne’s Songs and Sonnets, known as his love poems, were written over the course of two decades, from about 1595 to 1615, both before and after his marriage to Anne More in 1601, who died in 1617 ((Nutt 2). Poetry was a popular activity at the time and considered an important part of courtship (Nutt 2).
These experiences include the strong attachment between author and book which is also hinted at the beginning with the possessive pronoun ‘Her’. However, if the context of Bradstreet being a female writer and the period of time in which the poem is set in is taken into consideration, the use of ‘Her’ and a female persona could also be interpreted as the poet’s attempt at an egalitarian approach to literature. This is subtly suggested towards the end of the poem when the speaker states, “If for thy father asked, say thou hadst none;” The poem begins with the archaic pronoun ‘Thou’ and it immediately sets up the historical context of the poem. Recognition of the archaic form is vital as it helps modern readers gain a clearer picture of the predicament at that time and