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Poem Analysis: I Am A Nasty Woman By Hillary Clinton

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Herrera Stephanie
Professor Trager
Humanities 100 Tue-Thurs
February 8, 2017
I Am Not So Nasty After All
Life today feels like a page right out of our history books. Nina Donovan’s I’m a Nasty Woman is a response to the final presidential debate in which Donald Trump referred to Hillary Clinton as a “nasty woman”, it is an empowering poem that aims at many social issues; such as pro-equality, ethnic minorities, LGBT community, not losing focus on women’s right, our struggles and the equality we have yet to face. Donavon does not fail to mention the racism and hate President elect, Donald Trump has brought out in this country. Trough similes, metaphor, and repetition I’m a Nasty Woman reveals how history continues to repeat itself. It is a statement of …show more content…

The poem ultimately reminds us all that we all continue to have a voice, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or sexual preference and regardless of the inequality we have faced trough out our history; as long as the world keeps fighting minority groups, we must fight back, come together in solidarity and stand up for the change we have been waiting for, for so long; despite our differences.
Going back in time to the early 1940’s, where Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Germany murdered eleven-million people, a vast majority of them which were Jews, but those eleven-million also included gays, priest, gypsies, disabled people, anarchist, Poles, communist, trade unionist, Jehovah’s witness, anarchists, Slavic’s, and resistance fighters. Many of which were minorities and did not fit into Hitler’s ‘believes’; similar to what we find ourselves facing about seventy-five years later. Donovan mentions in her poem, “I didn’t know

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