Nikki Giovanni Poetry Analysis

How many times a day do you make choices? Too many to count some would say, you made a choice just now to think about if you wanted to count how many times you made choices. Sometimes you have a choice and other times you do not. Most times you only get stuck with one choice and you have to deal with it. In addition, it might not be the choice or decision you would have hoped for but you go with it. A choice is making a decision between two or more possibilities. In the poem, Choices by Nikki Giovanni she writes a very short but meaningful poem about decisions and choices that she makes. Giovanni wrote this poem in the year of 1978; the year her father passes away. Throughout the poem Giovanni expresses her need to feel conform

In this essay, female oppression in La Casa de Bernarda Alba will be discussed and analyzed. However, in order to be able to understand the importance of this theme and the impact it has had on the play, one must first understand the role of female oppression in the Spanish society in the 1930s.

Lorna Dee Cervantes' poem, “Poema para los Californios Muertos” (“Poem for the Dead Californios”), is a commentary on what happened to the original inhabitants of California when California was still Mexico, and an address to the speaker's dead ancestors. Utilizing a unique dynamic, consistently alternating between Spanish and English, Cervantes accurately represents the fear, hatred, and humility experienced by the “Californios” through rhythm, arrangement, tone, and most importantly, through use of language.

Do you feel that your movement is limited due to your appearance? Nikki Giovanna, author of the poem Choices, is an activist, writer, educator, and poet who originally published this poem in 1972 in a collection of poetry titled My House. Furthermore, Giovanna’s inspiration towards creating this poem is the Black Arts Movement, Civil Rights Movement, Equal Rights Amendment, and through her personal experiences as an African American female. This poem cornerstones the dilemma of the African American race.

The emergence of the Renaissance throughout Italy gave rise to the philosophy of humanism; rather than submitting to tradition, those situated lower on the social hierarchy began to question their situations. This lead to an increase in educational pursuits coupled with social and political upheaval. Early Renaissance feminists began to voice their concerns regarding the rights and equality of women in a heavily patriarchal society using literature, art, and politics. Laura Cetera’s Defense of Liberal Instruction for Women and Lucrezia Marinella’s The Nobility and Excellence of Women are both feminist pieces of the time. While both authors advocate for the political and social advancement for women, Cereta and Marinella’s differing experiences

Born in Tennessee, Nikki Giovanni spent the majority of her childhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, after moving with her family. Well acquainted with Knoxville, because of her family’s frequent trips to Tennessee from Ohio, Giovanni decided to go to college at Fisk University. Giovanni had trouble complying to the foreign rules and way of life at the University, which ultimately resulted in her expulsion. After being expelled, Giovanni thought about priorities and the importance of a college education. Giovanni negotiated a deal with the dean of Fisk University to allow her to re-enroll and graduate with the class of 1966 (Giovanni). Without her college education, Giovanni would be incapable of birthing her thought-provoking, mind-rendering poetry at the caliber in which she does. Shortly after receiving her graduate degree, Giovanni 's grandmother, Louvenia Watson, passed away. To help cope with the loss of her beloved grandmother, Giovanni started to write and eventually produced her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk. Wanting to publish her newly written work, Giovanni asked numerous publishers to give her an opportunity, but to no avail. Instead of waiting for the greenlight from a publisher, Nikki Giovanni self-published Black Feeling Black Talk using her personal finances (Giovanni). After composing several collections of poetry, Giovanni became a New York Times best-selling author and an acclaimed professor at Virginia Tech. Following the tragedy of the Virginia

Giovanni brilliantly uses the literary devices of imagery, paralleled repetition and symbolism to depict a vivid journey of transformation, concluding with an exquisite moment of self-realization.

This paper examines the feminist thoughtsas depicted in the works of black female writers, Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison. Both carry the common theme of describing the black woman and their sufferings in their novelsBeloved and I know why the caged bird sings. Both the writers handle a common feminist criticism. The silence, passivity and resistance of women protagonists are seen active of the feminist criticism.

Giovanni Boccaccio is one of the leading Italian writers in the 1300s and has been considered as the father of Italian writing style through his composition of one hundred novelle. The Decameron continuously pictures women not as the objects of discussion but as the active producers and interpreters of their actions. Women are portrayed as they are or as they should be; they are shown to be as aggressive as men are while at the same time they can be submissive whenever they need to be. In many instances, Boccaccio depicts women as protagonists who do not readily accept the traditional role – being subservient to men and having no voice in the male-dominated society–, make their own decisions,

Nikki Giovanni uses free verse, hyperbole, and symbolism in her poems, Nikki- Rosa, Ego Tripping, The Beep Beep Poem, and Kidnap Poem. Her style is to make the audience to create a descriptive picture and a deep understanding of Nikki’s perspective of her life of being a Black- American, which she didn’t let the color of her skin stop her from dreaming, creating her own imaginative life in her poet’s world.

The moment for this poem passed long ago as the sly smile of James Baldwin browns the cover of his words in the interview where he questions is there a gay community, and if he was ever a member, while a woman shimmies in a red dress in my memory of a dance floor and I hear miles and Miles and a marathon of Bessie in the thought I am neither black nor white nor any other but I have loved this brown face as perhaps no other man, though I will never be of his and he of mine, though we keep each other, don't we, in these lines. O Giovanni's room, that love you deny is your own soul's tiny tiny space in the

Feminism Criticism was stated to be used to find women’s writing involvement in history, recovering this writing, displacement of these writings, and whether women’s tradition is being established in the text (Wolosky 1). These conquests have not completely changed but have influenced analysis and subject discussion over the decades that it has been present, not only influencing

Feminist literary criticism is essentially linked to the political movement for equality of the sexes and the end to discrimination against women. In works of art, feminist criticism wants to uncover the ideology of patriarchal society. Feminists thought that text is a mode of expression for them where actual power relations between men and women are played out. The key political and theoretical stance of Feminism is this. The inequalities that existing between men and women are social but not natural not pre-ordained but created by men themselves in order that they can maintain their power over women. The family religions, education, the arts, knowledge system all are social and cultural ‘structures’ that enable the lasted reinforcement of this inequality. Men with their ability to pertain power so that the structure convince the woman to be subordinated. Cultural structures also providing a system of

In order to carry out these objectives , the essay will show a comparison between two feminist artistic representations from each century: Trifles 1916 and Mas vale Lola que mal acompañada 2017; and specific information from each representation like their plots, their origins or who are the main characters of each one.

Estrella Alfon’s “Magnificence” and Nick Joaquin’s “The Summer Solstice” are stories heavily focused on women going against the social roles and norms which in turn challenge patriarchy; thus, it is appropriate and fitting to use a feminist approach to analyze the said stories. Moreover, using a feminist criticism is more fitting since the female protagonists of the stories defy the socially constructed view of femininity and masculinity. In both stories, oppression or objectification of women is greatly exhibited. In order to unravel and comprehend the two stories, three questions will be tackled: (a) How is the relationship between