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Comparing Women And I Hear America Singing

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The two forms of poetry I will be analyzing in this essay are free verse, and haiku. I will be focusing on “Women” by Alice Walker as the haiku poem, and “I hear America singing” by Walt Whitman as my free verse poem. In the haiku poem “Women” the authors theme is having gratitude towards women throughout the entire poem, especially her mother. In the poem “I hear America singing” the authors theme is describing how all the workers sing their powerful tuneful songs.

The speaker in this poem is the author, because she says “my mama’s generation” in the second line. Her self-assured, strong and proud tone brags about women. She says “with fists as well as hands” meaning fists are the strong side of a woman, and hands represent the gentle side.
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