Daphne Beckman Perspective On Men

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In Daphne Beckmans essay, "Perspective on Men," the reader gets to sense how the author percieves men from the early stages of her life to when she was older and had more experience. When Beckman was younger, she percieved her father to be a "rock," he was the one to keep the family together and strong. As she grows older and opens her minds to peoms, she starts to realize that men are not greek gods that can do absolutely anything, but that they have cracks and character that all make up who they are. Throughout the essay, Beckman brings up a canon of peoms and personal experience that assist in describing her journey of how she percieves men. The author first gives the example of Walt Whitmans peom, "I Saw in Louisiana a Live- Oak Growing,"