What's That Smell In The Kitchen Analysis

What’s That Smell in the Kitchen? The speaker in this poem is talking to an audience. From reading, this poem is about women wanting respect which can be inferred that the speaker may be a female. The setting is around the time of 1982 in the household of a woman who are angry and unhappy. Line 10 says anger sputters in her brainpan, that they are really angry. Another part of the poem goes off to say, “If she wants to grill anything, it’s her husband spitted over a slow fire,” showing that in fact the setting had to be within the household. The poem is about upset women all over the America who do not feel respected as women by men. Different examples are used to describe how much anger the speaker is feeling, as well as women in general.