What Do Women Want? starts off with a rhetorical question which could have all manner of answers. For example, women might want equality, justice, freedom to be who they want to be. And so on and so forth. In the poem the speaker, a woman, narrows her wants down to a single item - a red dress. An item of clothing. No messing about, this person knows what she wants and states clearly so in the very first line. Not only does she want a red dress, but it must fit certain criteria. It must be flimsy and cheap - this person doesn't want an expensive model's dress for example, she wants a dress a poor person might buy? Although a red dress would stick out in a crowd, a cheap dress means that she also wants to be part of that same crowd, one of the …show more content…
is a single stanza poem of 27 lines of varying length. There is no set regular rhyme scheme and the meter also differs, so this poem is free verse. Note the repetition. The speaker is desperate to have this dress, reinforcing her need. "I want, I want, I want".... all in all, ten times throughout the poem. This is a loud and persistent ego the speaker has. The crucial repeat occurs in line 16 with " I want that red dress bad". There's a hint of impatience. She doesn't want to be ordinary any longer, she has no thoughts or care for anything other than being herself. Perhaps after so many years of oppression, of not being able to express herself, this speaker is finally going to do the right thing. Towards the end of the poem the red dress does indeed become a vehicle for radical change as the speaker alludes to it as a body suitable for carrying her into what will be a new world. She'll be able to experience the extremes of womanhood now, birth and death, and love. It's aware to me that throughout the narrative the speaker's wants are not yet satisfied. She hasn't yet found that red dress, that symbol of passion and strong identity, sexuality and confidence. The red dress becomes a metaphor, symbolic of the woman's free expression and
The poem is written in the style of free verse. The poet chooses not to separate the poem into stanzas, but only by punctuation. There is no rhyme scheme or individual rhyme present in the poem. The poems structure creates a personal feel for the reader. The reader can personally experience what the narrator is feeling while she experiences stereotyping.
First of alll, the poem is divided into nine stanzas, where each one has four lines. In addition to that, one can spot a few enjambements for instance (l.9-10). This stylistic device has the function to support the flow of the poem. Furthermore, it is crucial to take a look at the choice of words, when analysing the language.
The submission of women is demonstrated in the text through the symbolic colors of the couple’s bedroom. Indeed, as the young woman’s husband is asleep, the wife remains wide-awake, trying her best to provide the man with comfort, while enjoying her newlywed life. As she opens her eyes to contemplate “the blue of the brand-new curtains, instead of the apricot-pink through which the first light of day [filters] into the room where she [has]
In this stanza there is a question asked to the question reveals that the girl is puzzled about the lord is after her. This suggests that she is aware that he has different motives, rather than love and romance. This also shows that she knows the compliment is false and just a way of seducing her into bed. The second stanza is where the great lord isn’t so “great” anymore. He lured and tricked her into going to his palace home.
After reading this passage wonderfully written by Audre Lorde, I believe it's about two things. Racism. The belief in the inherent superiority of one race over all others and thereby the right to dominance, manifest and implied, and also how women respond to racism, in which she defines her response as " My response to racism is anger."
The first stanza describes the depth of despair that the speaker is feeling, without further explanation on its causes. The short length of the lines add a sense of incompleteness and hesitance the speaker feels towards his/ her emotions. This is successful in sparking the interest of the readers, as it makes the readers wonder about the events that lead to these emotions. The second and third stanza describe the agony the speaker is in, and the long lines work to add a sense of longing and the outpouring emotion the speaker is struggling with. The last stanza, again structured with short lines, finally reveals the speaker 's innermost desire to "make love" to the person the speaker is in love
"The Woman Who Cried" exemplifies the womanhood in post modern times. She is here searching her "self" which is sadly broken into pieces.Man has a new defin...
the poem is that all she wants is some happiness and to be able to
The author was able to convey this message by writing about how men treated and saw women “… laugh at women’s hats” , and how women are beginning to get their rights and working so that they will soon be seen as equals to men in both the private and public sphere. The author also wrote about how some women are oblivious to these changing and go about their daily life without any respect and that the hope is that the daughter does not become one of them “ … although there are plenty of women who haven’t heard the news yet. I hope you, my daughter, will be more enlightened” . The author goes on to say how the dream is that one day both sexes will be equal, and that men and women will be able to do whatever work they desire regardless of the stereotype of certain work forces, “ it’s a serious fact that he belongs at a sink just as much as a women. Men have proven over and over again that they make wonderful cooks” . This tells the daughter to see people not just as their sex, but as their skills and if women were to become equals to men, then that not only means that women being able to do what men do but men being able to do what women do without
The poem is divided into 2 Stanza's with 3 lines each. And there are an
In relation to structure and style, the poem contains six stanzas of varying lengths. The first, second, and fourth stanzas
This is a long one-stanza narrative poem. All the lines have five stresses and are written in iambic pentameter or blank verse, which was also Shakespeare's chosen meter in his plays.
Her tone in this song is at first mellow, but when she comes to the stanza of this song, she deliberately raises her voice to emphasize her genuine feelings. The tone describes her want and need for her thoughts to be truly heard. She wants the listener to capture her essence and the view of herself. In this specific stanza, she explains that s...
In "The Wife Of Bath’s Tale", women most desire sovereignty over men in relationships. In other words, the power to have dominance over men is the one thing women most desire. I agree with the ideas that in relationship women wish to be dominant over the opposite sex. The only way such power is earned or give is when the man is in a situation where the woman must bail him out of trouble.
The ABAB rhyme scheme is a pattern that can be recognized by many individuals; therefore, it relates to the message that motivation is needed by everybody. Two ABAB rhyme schemes make up each stanza, which symbolizes the positivity and negativity that battle throughout the poem. Guest breaks the rhyme scheme once by rhyming “failure” with “you”. This strategic action emphasizes the different methods that negative individuals use to destroy a person’s ambition. Internal rhyme is included in many lines of the poem to create fluidity and sound pleasing to an audience. The poem is composed of a qualitative iambic meter, giving the syllables a sound of da DUM. A pleasing flow is observed through the fairly consistent line length and line syllable number. The lines throughout the poem end in both stressed and unstressed syllables, referencing the battle between discouragement and