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Analysis Of Poetry Is Not A Luxury By Audre Lorde

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In “Poetry is not a Luxury” by Audre Lorde, Lorde wrote about how poetry is a powerful tool and when people use it, poetry can change the world. She says that poetry is a way that people can give “name to the nameless”. However, the author claims that for women, poetry is not a luxury, this is because women are marginalized and labeled by society, but poetry can be used to express strong emotions and oppression, and to be used as a weapon to express protest the labels that have been placed on women by society. In the poem Lorde wrote,” For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of life within which we predicate our hopes and dreams towards survival and change, first made into language,
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