Rossetti was showing the female dominance in the world today with her poem. Another one her themes was sin. She displays sin in two ways. One way is how Laura done anything for the forbidden fruit. It expressed a sexual escape for Laura.
Sappho and Homosexuality Sappho was a Greek poet in the archaic period. She lived on the island of Lesbos working at a girl’s boarding school (Bing, 1991). In Sappho’s poetry we can see many examples of her rebellion against the traditional gender roles of the archaic period in Greek culture. Although only one poem has been fully recovered, the rest only in fragments, we can still get a firm grasp of the types of messages she was trying to portray about gender biases and relationships between women (Pomeroy, 2004). Her poetry demonstrates a very high level of sexual interest in women which although was not extremely uncommon, homosexuality does not operate within the gender roles and norms.
To prove that point as showed “the dust replaced in hoisted roads, the birds jocose sung ;”( Lines 9-10) The following poem “apparently no surprise” uses nature as well, however as metaphor of life. A flower, a symbol of delicate beauty and on the other hand frost, has nothing against flower. It is circle of life which god created”To any happy flower the beheads it at its play”( Lines 2-3) Ultimately ”A light exist in spring” shows the certain light that only occurs in specific time of year, another element if nature, and also colors, fields, lawns, tree slope, horizons. Which is spring time, that can be proved by any line of this poem, such as ”at any other period-when march is scarcely here”( Lines 3-4) In conclusion, Emily Dickinson uses nature elements to reveal perception on everyday life and associates different
This thought allows her to feel a sense of community with the strangers at the park. Miss Brill takes every opportunity of imagining that she has a connection with the individuals she observes too feel like she belongs there. This helps Miss Brill to escape her solitary life at least once a week. However, as Miss Brill observes and listens, she prefers to view her world through a beautiful glass to protect herself from confronting the truth of her lonely life. Miss Brill exaggerates her perception of reality to avoid facing the bad things of her life.
In this poem, the lady autumn teams up with the sun, basks in the breeze of a granary, and takes lazy naps in a field. Lines 2-3: Autumn is personified for the first of many times in the poem. She and the sun whisper together like a bunch of gossipy teenage girls. But the goal is serious and necessary: they are responsible for the bounty of fruit and crops that will sustain people through the winter. Line 12: The speaker asks a rhetorical question to introduce a connection he believes the reader will recognize, between autumn and the harvest.
Shakespeare presents three female characters in Othello –Desdemona, Emilia, and Bianca each of which represents the diverse view on women. While Desdemona is a pinnacle of beauty and innocence, Emilia presents a feministic voice in the play and Bianca is a personification of the female sexuality. This paper attempts to put these female characters, in context of the theories of rhetoric, gender and feminism of the philosophers Helene Cixous’ “The Laugh of The Medusa” and Luce Irigaray’s “The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine”. In the twentieth centurys, both Irigary and Cixous present compelling ideas on the condition of women in terms of discourse. While the two philosophers published their work in the 1970s, one would assume that they are not completely applicable in modern or in Shakespearean times.
Particularly, Hair and My Angry Vagina discussed how society thinks the vagina should be hairless and smell like flowers and should not be left in its natural state. The "Wear and Say" List was a great transition after the Hair monologue. The girls exposed what their vagina would wear if it could be dressed and say if it could talk. The Vagina Workshop was about a woman who had a self-discovery experience with her vagina. It portrayed the relationships that females have with their vagina.
EMPOWERMENT V.S. OPPRESSION There are many different types of marriages that men and women can take part in which may have according gender roles which can lead to women having either agency or oppression. In Marji Satrapi’s graphic novel Embroideries, she contrasts the traditional and modern view of marriage via a conversation of women from different ages-each seeing marriage as a way to gain agency or a way to contribute to the oppression of Iranian women. In Juliet Williams’ Unholy Matrimony? She depicts a very analytical view of an Iranian custom of temporary marriage, sigheh and the ways in which it can empower women or oppress women, depending on the type of marriage and the time it takes place.
In the mid-sixties and early-seventies the second wave of feminism was formed. According to Kari Meyers Skredsvig, the core argument of the second wave was for equality, not only in the home but also in the workplace (Skredsvig par. 3). This wave also dealt with deeper issues in literature like sexuality and reproductive rights. In these two periods women around the world expressed their frustration with inequality and sexual frustration.
In the article, “Controlling your reality” Paige Pfleger states “Reality television can also preserve old fashioned notions about sexual stereotyping. Women are encouraged to fulfill roles as “the slut” and are simultaneously devalued by doing so” sadly these are the types of stereotypes young girls and women grow up with (3). Little girls are told to act a certain way only for society to reject and humiliate them for it. In The Hunger Games Collins makes a point by sexually objectifying Glimmer, a career tribute, because she looks like the stereotype of sexy. In the novel Collins writes, “The girl tribute from District 1, looking provocative in a see-through gold gown…With that flowing blonde hair, emerald green eyes, her body tall and lush… she’s sexy all the way”(125).Collins makes it clear that society has a very specific image of what sexy should look like.