The Ponie Being Like A Woman Summary

Finally, in the third stanza of the poem she states, “Do you feel the skin that binds us together as we move, heavy in this house” (Minty lines 10-11). This is in reference to the environment of the house. The skin enhances the metaphor as it stresses to readers how hard it is to live in the house. Using the term skin suggests that the

The use of symbolism is one of the main literary elements used in this poem. The speaker’s long hair is used as a representation of sexuality. Women are often viewed to be more desirable with longer hair. Long hair it is also used to validate femininity and in earlier years also represented social status. Throughout history, hair has been worn in a variety of ways often determined by the

In stanza four the poet is flashing back to his childhood and telling us some other words that he got in trouble for. “Other words that got me into trouble were fight and fright, wren and yarn.” (29-31) Even though he got in trouble by his teacher for not knowing the words, his mother helped him understand them in a different way. “Wren are small, plain birds.” (34) “My mother made birds out of yarn.” (37) Here he is shown how two different things can become the same thing.

In analyzation, the connotation aspect of this poem is how women during this time, specifically white women, used their power over black men and their freedom. Although the texts’ literal interpretation, or denotation,

Getting back to Papa’s conversation, he says, “I’m a man; therefore, I know about the man stuff. There is something I want you to know and the only way I know how to tell you is to say it is straight out. There is no delicate way to say this; men are vulgar creatures, Molly. They’re perversive rogues that only want one thing - to lay you down, spread your thighs and have their way with you. Don’t let your head be turned by just any boy you pass on the street. Even here in Butler County!” If I thought the woman thing scared me- what Papa said really scared me- As soon as he finished with me, I went straight to Becky’s cabin, told her what Papa had told me, and asked her what he meant.

· In the first line of the poem, the speaker expresses her feelings towards men by using the word “Anger”(1). From just the

“I’d go on my two bare feet. But when, with my brother’s jack-knife, I had cut me a long limber horse with a good thick knob for a head…The willow knob with the strap jouncing between my thighs was the pommel and yet the poll of my nickering pony’s head,” says the main character. He basks in the glory of his younger years, and longs for a time when he was oblivious to all of the evils of the world. Containing many simple phrases, the structure of the poem brings an airy vibe to the mystical imagery. “My teeth bared as we wheeled and swished through the dust again. I was the horse and the rider, and the leather I slapped to his rump spanked my own behind,” reads the poem. Descriptive verbs allow the reader to see the character’s movements. The reader is able to easily understand that the character is comparing himself to his horse which he becomes one with. The poem is written in a first person point of view in which the character is within and beside

Unlike Naylor, Cullen never identifies the sex of the black child in his poem. Perhaps Cullen renders the child in his poem genderless to give the child a more universal standing; perhaps he leaves the child genderless in order to focus on the more important fact that the child, whether male or female, sees no difference between him- or herself and the other boy until the “Baltimorean" boy calls him/her "nigger" (3).

In her poem Guys Like That which is in the book on page 1038 in the textbook, she talks about women’s prospective of men and how a personal experience proves that point. In the first stanza

The author uses imagery in the poem to make the experience of this one woman stand out vividly. The first lines of the poem say "she saw diapers steaming on the line / a doll slumped behind the door." The phrase "steaming on the line" is especially strong, making me

The speaker is deduced as a woman from the first stanza’s feminine references to “Dolls” (5) and “threading” (7). Immediately, the narrator is placed in a role that stereotypes her to be a woman. Dickinson does this to

mind. It suggest the poet see it as love or nothing and that he was

The narrator says, “ She was plotting now to get me to stay in the house more, although she knew I hated it and keep me from working for my father.(pg. 307) This statement is describing how important these roles were to the manipulative parental figures in her life. The father did not believe in the stereotypical women roles, which lead to him making her a hired man. During the winter, the family keeps and kills two horses to feed the foxes with horse meat. The name of the horses was Mack and Flora, which were a single female and male horse. Mack was the male horse who was characterized as a old black workhouse, sooty, and indifferent. (pg. 308) This statement describes how the stereotypical male in society should be like in the 1960 's. The male should have the characteristics of workhorse in the field of working in the 1960 's. Flora was a female who was characterized as an sorrel mare, a driver.(pg. 308) This statement describes how dominant she was a female horse. In contrast, the female women was not the dominant gender in the 1960 's , because of the limitations and lack of opportunities created by the predominantly gender of males. The narrator says, “ the word girl had formerly seemed to me

In stanza one, Judith Wright utilizes personification “rivers hindered him” and “thorn branches caught at his eyes to make him blind” coupled with metaphor “the sky turned into an unlucky opal” to emphasise nature’s hindrance of the blacksmith boy, if the poem is to be deemed as a metaphorical representation of

The poem talks about a man- an anonymous “he”- a perfectionist whose poetry was understandable and who, himself, understood “human folly” and the human psyche like “the back of his hand”. He was