The poem begins by stating to the audience that it is a riddle to be solved. A riddle is not easily figured out and it needs to be carefully considered to find its meaning. The nine syllables and nine lines of the poem signify the nine months of pregnancy. The poem proceeds to use rich metaphors to compare the narrator and different objects in order to make the audience see and feel the point more clearly. In line two, the narrator states that she is an elephant and a ponderous house.
Comparative Commentary The first text, ‘My Name’ is written in form of prose. The main character, Esperanza, does not like her name, which in English means hope, while in Spanish it is just a difficult, long word. However, hope implies waiting and sadness. In addition, Esperanza was called her great-grandmother, a strong and wild woman, who got married by forces. She always was looking through the window, waiting.
Sonnet 29 is in the form of sonnet which has 14 lines of iambic pentameter. This sonnet was published in her collection The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems for which she received the Pulitzer award. The main theme of this poem is her unrequited love. She is addressing her lover and telling him not to pity her for things which she cant stop in nature. She doesn’t want to be pitied for those things which one can’t stop like passing of the day, it is natural for the sun to fade and darkness to set in.
When analysing a poem of Plath's one may automatically associate it with depression, melancholy etc. even before reading the piece itself and fairly so. Mental illness was a major part of her adolescent and adult life and is clearly present in many of her writings. When first going over Morning Song, it is surprising to find nothing lachrymose or dark about this piece. Instead we are given a rare insight into Plath's mind of being a first time mother, something she never thought that she would be.
The third part was Gynocritics, which tried to “revise Freudian structures and... emphasized a Pre-Oedipal phase wherein the daughter's bond to her mother inscribes the key factor in gender identity” (Lee). All three parts relate back to Morag’s character. Morag is a writer and would like to agree with the Androgynist poetics and the notion that creativity is genderless and does not pertain to a particular sex but she faces the problem that arises with the Female Aesthetic where emphasis is put on the physical part of being a female. Morag is insecure when she is young because she does not know how to flirt and use that side of her femininity. She feels like will not “ever attain the status of high
Chaucer on Feminism That One Gal Brit Lit Professor Brainy Ack 2012 Chaucer on Feminism The Wife of Bath’s Tale and its prologue, first published in 1387, are part of The Canterbury Tales and are arguably Geoffrey Chaucer’s most famous work. The tale’s fame stems as much from its entertaining romantic narrative as it does from the fact that it is narrated by a woman and primarily affected by the needs and desires of women. In addition to its feminine voice, Chaucer’s bawdy narrator, Alisoun, discusses various taboo subjects of her time, from her own sexual needs and experiences to the rape of a maiden by a knight, all while making a clever argument for women’s desire to have sovereignty over men. The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale is Chaucer’s version of feminist literature and the wife’s powerfully independent and distinctly female voice represents the unshackling of women in a time when women were bound by institutional misogyny. Alisoun uses scripture, certainly the most influential and anti-feminist literature of the Middle Ages, to justify her own feminist philosophy; which is evidence of Chaucer making a medieval attempt at feminist writing.
However, all of this romanticizing about motherhood never quite prepared me for this leading role. As I was reading the essay “Who You Callin’ Bitch,” I paused and reflected on Queen Latifah’s comment that a queen, a woman with self-esteem, handles adversity with grace (Latifah 35). She sites the example of Jacqueline Kennedy. Subsequently, I thought about my role as a mom and how we set examples for our children that can be life changing. Our second son was born with a birth defect called hydrocephalis.
Sara Hoey Concepts of Literature Mr. Link 05 November 2012 The Controlling Mother How is one single individual supposed to distinguish between a good mother and a bad mother? What characteristics set apart a good mother from a bad mother? These two important yet mind boggling questions should cross one's mind when reading "The Glass Mengarie" by a famous writer known as Tennessee Williams. In addition to asking yourself questions while reading this story, one should attempt to understand why any one mother acts the way they do. Throughout our history, this country has been through disturbing times where we as a nation were expected to come together in unity and help one another.
“Explore and analyse Auden’s narrative methods in Miss Gee” Auden uses a variety of narrative methods to explore and analyse the story in Miss Gee. The poem was written in 1937, when women were expected to be good wives and mothers and have household duties. This is opposite of Miss Gee’s lifestyle because she is very prim and prudish, she also tends to avoid all temptations. This would make people suspicious of her at this time because she is not sticking with the usual duties of a woman. The poem is about our perceptions of others because when you are reading the poem, you begin to mock Miss Gee’s life choices and appearance and then this is reinforced at the end of the poem when she is treated disrespectfully by the doctors and students.
By the time Bearing is a well-known professor, it’s apparent that wit and intellect are the most important aspects of her life. During her days of lecturing, Bearing is blunt and unsympathetic. She does not teach to help her students grow in literature but to showcase her own profound knowledge of John Donne’s poetry. She comes to this realization through Jason’s unsympathetic manner of operation. After Bearing is diagnosed with cancer early in the play, she has a