1998 Poem: “It's a Woman's World” (Eavan Boland)
Prompt: The following poem was written by a contemporary Irish woman, Eavan Boland. Read the poem carefully and then write in which you analyze how the poem reveals the speaker’s complex conception of a “woman's world.”
Woman's work has powerful meaning and deception behind its complex content. It's very obvious and clear that a woman had written this poem just by the tone and mood you feel from reading the lines off the page. (I had recently posted the poem down below in another post FYI to reference back on) Being a woman is one of the hardest things in the world and Maya Angelou, the author, emphasizes on that. She chose the words she did to put emphasis on the continuous ever lasting list of chores we need (as women) need to accomplish everyday. "I've got the floor to mop, the food to shop, the chicken to fry, the baby to dry....... I've got company to feed, the garden to weed.." Reading this poem can be entirely relateable not only as a woman but as a male himself because they do pick up on all these things and sit there to think to theme selves "You know women really do a lot." The speakers complex diction also was significant in lines
"Shine on me sunshine, rain on me rain, fall soft on me dew drops, and cool my brow again." Not only is she finally expressing her fatigue and exhaustedness, she's stating that she wants and needs a break after all the hard work she had just miraculously accomplished. This poem is highly powerful in a way where when taking a woman's hard work for granted is childish. Play the role, even as children and not just men, on appreciating all the things women do in their life to satisfy the needs of others. Nothing well earned in life comes easy.
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