A Literary analysis of “Homage to My Hips” written by Lucille Clifton. Clifton displays a very straight forward, confident description of her body type. The setting is about as real as a poem can get, she wants to make sure readers know that her hips move through a world just as everyone else, the writer is displaying an elite amount of confidence throughout the poem. “These hips are free hips. They don’t like to be held back.”(5-7) this is the way the speaker describes her hips.
They were sexually exploited, they were psychologically confused to womanhood, and they had to endure the hardships of motherhood in very harsh conditions. It was a tough life, but Jacobs embraces her sense of morality of being an African American woman of the time and lets us know the hardships that she went through
Have you ever been put down, and told you could not succeed? Maybe not in those exact words, but if you read between the lines there they would lay. Think about it, how many people have done that to you and succeeded in putting you down? Sometimes it may be hard, but through everything you will be able to get through it all. One of the greatest poets of our time Maya Angelou demonstrates this very well in her poem "Still I Rise".
The three of these poems, from the Light Blue Clear Atoms (Second Edition) anthology, discuss the many sides man has in this day and age. Real Ones comes from the genre 'Human Species', so it is fair to say that it talks about human qualities. Throughout history, mankind has been known to be tyrannous and oppressive. This is one of the major themes presented in Real Ones, the idea that what society dictates is real, nothing else. The poet is being oppressed by society, but she doesn't care.
These readings and poems are literally inspirational. It does not matter if you’re a lesbian or a queer, if there is love, then there is love. Like there are a few passages and poems I loved. In “La Ofrenda by Cheeríe Moraga” chronicling her love for her childhood friend Tiny, Moraga casually exposes the failure of the heterosexist machos of the Chicano movement to keep their women satisfied, and in doing so undermines the male ego: “Tiny used to say her contribution to La Causa was to keep the girlfriends of the Machos happy while they were out being too revolutionary to screw”. Not only does
McDougald thinks that the low class black women intrude as a hindrance for the entire black race and the few who have proven their dominant are still associated with ignorance and the signification of being a black woman. McDougald highlights the accomplishments of many African American women as if they have gone unnoticed. She wants to gain recognition as a successful black
and the imagery that refers rubber, coal, uranium, moons, and poems. The tone of this mans voice is stronger, than if it had been the voice of a woman. Loving poetry just as much in life at one time to see how each will work out, since no one can look ahead to see where each choice might lead. Easter Wings by George Herbert- The speaker is having a dialogue with god. Herbert tells us that choices are extremely important.
With the author’s specific use of diction, structure, parallelism, irony, and symbolism, the poem emerges into a metaphorical tale about the coldness and negligence, rather than sympathy and consolation, many people display during a great misfortune. BODY Diction and structure are the foundation of any literary work. To begin with, Parker uses words like “them” and “they” in her poem rather than more specific and definitive names. This word choice creates a mysterious atmosphere and raises the question: Who are “they” and “them”? The diction the Diction and structure 1 HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON Analyzing a Poem writer uses leaves the perpetrators nameless.
I’ll start off with General Strain theory, it states that strain can be caused by failure to achieve positively valued stimuli, the loss of positively valued stimuli, and presentation of negative stimuli. In Compelled to Crime, the African American battered women were overwhelmed with strain, in response they acted out by committing an array of different crimes. The reasoning behind this could be because of their low levels of social support. The African American battered women did not have a lot of support; they were most of the time cut off from their families and friends. Another example of how strain applies to these women can be seen in Agnew’s writings when he said “Data suggest that child abuse and neglect negative school experiences, chronic unemployment, and residence in deprived communities are important causes sate anger and that such anger explains much of the effective of strains on crime.” (Agnew, Chp.
• Rhetorical questions directed to the reader. This poem has a very certain seriousness to it, but Angelou brings in her pride as an African American woman and injects playful images into the poem when asking questions. The stanzas that have questions show the direct relationship between the speaker and the audience, Angelou allows the reader to put themselves in the heat of the discussion and in the heart of the poem. The tone is one of sureness and triumphant. • Simile ‘I walk like I’ve got oil wells’ powerful, confident image.