The different key features also plays an important role for example the tone that is being formed by the lyrical voice that can be seen as a nephew or niece. This specific poem is also seen as an exposition of what Judith Butler will call a ‘gender trouble’ and it consist of an ABBA rhyming pattern that makes the reading of the poem better to understand. The poem emphasizes feminist, gender and queer theories that explains the life of the past and modern women and how they are made to see the world they are supposed to live in. The main theories that will be discussed in this poem will be described while analyzing the poem and this will make the poem and the theories clear to the reader. Different principals of the Feminist Theory.
This becomes evident in a lack of information about the type of society, and the reader therefore lacks a complete understanding of how the women are oppressed. As a whole, this poem sets forth the idea that female gender is fluid, and asks its readers to questions what it means to be a woman in a male dominant
1) Sappho’s occasion It is possible that the work of any archaic
The language in Plato’s symposium and the expression of Sappho’s poetry are similar in that they both deal with homoerotic love. Sappho, the only ancient Greek female author whose work survived, talks from the female point of observation, where as Plato’s work concentrates on the idea of love among males. In spite of the fact that both of their points of view are comparative in courses, for example, their thoughts of physical fascination and want, Plato’s work creates a better understanding of the nature of love then Sappho’s ideas. This understanding will be shown with three arguments and counter- arguments in order to demonstrate the dominance of Plato over Sappho. It will than be concluded with an overview of the main idea and a recap of the three arguments made for Plato.
“Thy love is such I can no way repay. The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray” (226). Lines 9 and 10 show a Feminist criticism point of view, these verses make the suggestion that the wife may be inferior to her husband, implying the husband’s superiority. Line 3, “If ever wife was happy in a man” (226), in which the word wife is used but man rather than husband is employed. The word wife in the line means belonging and dependency while man represents strength and independence.
The poem was written in a time where black people and women were dehumanized where those in power abused the power to gain more and those without power were continuously affected by it. Reading the poem and had an impact on me with the dictation of lexis, however all of these feelings were heightened when I listened to the oral performance. The poem starts of in the present tense “Even tonight and I need to take a walk” (Jordan 1) which gives a setting to the scene, in the opening few lines Jordan uses the repetition of “I” and “my” which made the poem for me more personal, the use of repetition in the opening part of the poem produced a deeper connection to the poem, repetition of the words placed emphasis and clarity of the words which came after “my body posture my gender identity my age…” (Jordan
This poem appeals well to the senses of the reader as for it goes into a plethora of detail surrounding how this woman makes Sappho feel. For example she states “then all at
She is describing how men want things done their way and women who do not cater to their needs get punished. The men never take responsibilities for their actions towards their women. This entire poem signifies how women bend over backward for their husband and get no rewards or praises in the end. Sor Juana is considered a feminist because she is in favor of women being well educated and having the right to pursue their dreams. Sor Juana turned down several suitors who approached her with marriage proposals.
Women were fearful of men taking advantage of them, and assumed the worst in men. They were overprotective of themselves, and this is exemplified in the lines “ya little green pervert/an i hitsm with my mop” (Machan 20-21). However, as unfavorably men were viewed, women still relied on men, and this matriarchal attitude is depicted in the poem as well. In order for Hazel to become a princess, she must kiss a frog, who is a man.
Similarly both works expresses a fervent desire towards someone. In Sappho’s fragment 130 we see can see love and desire has took a hold on Sappho. A feeling that can be described as either pleasant or even painful yet she has a hard time fighting off the overcoming feeling. What’s interesting is
This is different from the other poem Women because in the poem by Nikki Giovanni the speaker keeps changing for someone and they constantly reject her. This shows that she does not have the confidence to be who she truly is without their approval. “She wanted to be a blade / of grass amid the fields / but he wouldn 't agree / to be the dandelion,” (Giovanni 1-4). These lines show that they do not want to be amongst
Readers can see Sappho’s influence on Catullus by him using the same words that Sappho uses in her poem. For example: Sapho states in stanza four, “speak—my tongue is broken; a thin flame runs under my skin; seeing nothing…” and in Catallus’ second poem, stanza three, he states: “Limbs are pierced with fire and the heavy tongue fails…” The repeated word in this example is tongue, but it is used differently. As readers continue to read and compare their poems they can notice how words and ideas are repeated. After reading and analyzing both of their works of poetry, I gathered the idea of Catallus' work to be more masculine.
Porphyria takes off her coat, gloves and lets down her hair (Lines 11-13) The poem then starts to give off a sense of seduction and a feeling of sexual tension. After she simply sits next to him, it is clear that this woman is not just looking for sex, this woman is relaxed and is deeply in love. “She put my arm around her waist,” / “And made her smooth white shoulder bare,” (Lines 16-17). Porphyria’s body language expresses the feelings she has for this man.
The ode begins with an anonymous speaker, but towards the end of the poem is identified as Sappho by Aphrodite. Groundbreaking with its intimacy and openness, Sappho writes the ode to ask Aphrodite for her help in making an unrequited love requited– and not for the first time, shown through the use of the parenthetical “now again” Are in the fourth and fifth stanzas. Moreover, all of Sappho’s “if’s highlight how hopeful she is, and how willing Aphrodite is to assuage any of the unfavorable situations (the unnamed woman refusing gifts, for instance) by setting them up with “if”’s and then shooting them down. Towards the end, after Aphrodite’s interlude, Sappho is more assertive with statements like “come to me now” and “You be my ally” (28). In fact, Sappho and Aphrodite seem somewhat spiteful, with a little bit of a manipulative undertone showing through phrases like “soon she will love even unwilling”.
Society’s superficial viewing of women is also reflected in the poem’s wring, as it may seem that this poem is strictly concerned with a prostitute, but in fact it describes all females. The male representative in the poem, Georges, then asserts his superiority, despite their similar conditions of being poor. Although he is sexually attracted to her as he “stiffens for [her] warmth”, suggesting an erection, he is unwilling to accept her as a human being as he deems her question “Why do you do this?”
