Marge Piercy who was born in Detroit‚ is known as a feminist writer. Her poem‚ ‘Breaking Out’ was first published in the Harbor Review in 1984. The poem portrays the double oppression faced by a girl‚ for being a girl child and a child‚ at the same time. The poem depicts how the girl wants to ‘break out’ from the conventional norms of the society which is responsible for the oppression. SUMMARY: Lines 1-7: These lines describe the first political act led by a girl who is subjected to endless humiliation
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passing through us by Marge Piercy: In the collection of poems‚ Colors passing through us‚ Marge Piercy expressed her feelings and her perspection of life through her eyes using references to colors‚ and other daily life things. "Blue as still water. Blue as the eyes of a siamese cat." She expresses her calm and cool feelings through the color blue. She refers to the still water‚ which symbolizes tranquility‚ serenity and the state of being at peace. "Love is a lumpy thing." Marge compares love to
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was given miniature toys that imitated real life. These items give her a false sense of what real life is like. The last two lines of the first stanza states “Then in the magic of puberty‚ a classmate said:/ You have a great big nose and fat legs.” (835) Puberty is the turning point for every young girl‚ where her body is changing and she compares her image of herself to what she sees around her and what she has seen in her past‚ including Barbie the representation of a real woman that she played
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Feminist Literature Draft In many instances‚ the works of feminist literature use characters to examine and address the issues in the way society treats women. The poems “Daystar” by Rita Dove and “The Secretary Chant” by Marge Piercy do that by focusing on the female identity‚ more specifically the lack of it their characters are experiencing. By introducing readers to the attitude of the female characters toward their situation‚ the poems portray daily life from a new perspective that challenged
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Write a sentence that expresses one of the four senses for each of the following topics. Try to use like‚ as…as‚ and so...that in some of your sentences. 1. Describe the smell I someone’s kitchen. __________________________________________________________________________ 2. Describe the sound of the classroom. __________________________________________________________________________ 3. Describe the taste of your favorite dish. _
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Short Composition Analysis of the poem Barbie Doll’ written by Marge Piercy (1973). This girlchild was born as usual And presented dolls that did pee-pee And miniature GE stoves and irons And wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy. Then in the magic of puberty‚ a classmate said: You have a great big nose and fat legs. She was healthy‚ tested intelligent‚ Possessed strong arms and back‚ Abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity. She went to and fro apologizing. Everyone saw a fat nose on thick
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The poem “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy and “Suicide Note” by Janice Mirikitani are both about how two young women could no long take the pressures society placed upon them. Although the two poems have a very different tone‚ language‚ and structure the same underlying theme exists. In both poems the girls struggle to be perfect and to conform to the desires of others. Both women in the poems ultimately commit suicide because they can no longer live with the criticism and lack of acceptance that
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There are many different types of smell. Some smells are pleasant like aroma‚ fragrance and scent‚ are normally present on food‚ perfumes and flowers. They can be good but sometimes intolerable. Other types of smell like malodor‚ stench‚ reek and stink are use specifically to describe unpleasant odors. They can be strong‚ mild or tolerable. Most of these smells can be found at the right place‚ but not always at the right time. Some smells can be annoying to others at school‚ especially
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The Smell of Heavenly The sense of smell can be a powerful sense. Just one sniff of a scent of perfume or a flower or anything can take me back to a memory or remind me of when I went to vacation with my friends to California. My favorite sense is my perfume that is called Heavenly by Victoria Secret. It just reminds me of so many good times that I have had with all my friends. This perfume I bought before we left on vacation‚ not knowing it would become my absolute favorite. The
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In the Kitchen In the story In the Kitchen‚ Henry Louis Gates Jr. makes the point that there are some things that you just cannot take away from people‚ such as character traits and people’s ways of life. Those are things that you cannot get rid of no matter how much "hair grease"� you put in your life. When Gates was a young boy‚ he would watch his mother do the people’s hair in their kitchen and would marvel at how the black person’s hair would always go back to the kings no matter how good it
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