Summary Of The Poem Bitch

In your poem “Bitch” you show that the text realizably objects the narrow set of choices that women face in society. I’ve noticed in reality that I and other women feel as if they need to wear a “mask” to hide emotions, they need to put themselves down, and they need attention. Women put on a “mask” to hide the feelings they really feel because they know that it’s not always necessary to express them. In your poem you represented reality with how women hold back and hide emotions to themselves very well. When the women meets with her former lover after all those years the “bitch” inside of her starts to feel a sense of intimidation and fear with the situation. You show this with saying “Now, when he and I meet, after all these years, I say to the bitch inside me, don’t start growling. He isn’t a

When she sees her former lover she gets overwhelmed and tries to control her inner thoughts with threats, and harsh comments to herself. Once the “bitch” inside her wants to snuggle up with him and be close, she threatens to “punish” her inner self. As she said to herself “Down, girl! Keep your distance Or I’ll give you a taste of the choke-chain.” This shows that the women has to literally threaten herself just to stop the feelings; as if she was in the wrong for wanting him. After their conversation and she finds out that the man is happy and good without her she starts to feel bad about herself. The woman feels like she wasn’t good enough for him. The woman says to herself “He couldn’t have taken you with him; You were too demonstrative, too clumsy, Not like the well-groomed pets of his new friends.” She feels like maybe if she wasn’t that way he would still love her. She hates thinking that he’s better off without her. It’s only an instinct as a women to feel compared to each other. Especially past