Schylar Hardin
Paper 2
The Insatiable Desire of a Woman In Kim Addonizio’s “What Do Women Want?” she uses the mind of a women to exhibit the societal expectations and constraints of many women. Through the use of repetition, sentence structure, and a sarcastic tone, Addonizio is able to reveal what women truly want: to not be characterized and streamlined by others.
The constant repetition of “I want” reflects a trait of desire and of lacking personal fulfillment with others and situations that many determine women exhibit. After various restatements of “I want”, the poem goes on to show that the woman’s desire is yet to be quenched in its stating of “When [she finds] it, [she’ll] pull that garment/from its hanger…” (lines 21-22). This confirms to the reader that the woman is still in an agonizing want for this item. …show more content…
Longer sentences stuffed with dependent clauses and many commas such as “I want to walk down/the street past Thrifty’s and the hardware store/with all those keys glittering in the window…” (lines 7-9) give the reader a sense of exaggeration. When the woman Addonizio is portraying goes on a random tangent with her thoughts, one can recognize that what she’s directly stating may not be what she truly means. When the reader understands that the thoughts of woman are hyperbolic, he or she is able to truly understand Addonizio’s purpose in her writing of this poem.
Although short “What Do Women Want?” is swarming with symbolism and representations of stereotypes placed on women. With its repetition and sentence structure, the reader is able to understand which stereotypes in particular that Addonizio is choosing to address. With her varied sentence structure, she generates a sarcastic tone that creates a mockery of these generalizations. This sarcastic voice enables to reader to truly understand what women rightly desire: to not be categorized and simplified by
Paper 2
The Insatiable Desire of a Woman In Kim Addonizio’s “What Do Women Want?” she uses the mind of a women to exhibit the societal expectations and constraints of many women. Through the use of repetition, sentence structure, and a sarcastic tone, Addonizio is able to reveal what women truly want: to not be characterized and streamlined by others.
The constant repetition of “I want” reflects a trait of desire and of lacking personal fulfillment with others and situations that many determine women exhibit. After various restatements of “I want”, the poem goes on to show that the woman’s desire is yet to be quenched in its stating of “When [she finds] it, [she’ll] pull that garment/from its hanger…” (lines 21-22). This confirms to the reader that the woman is still in an agonizing want for this item. …show more content…
Longer sentences stuffed with dependent clauses and many commas such as “I want to walk down/the street past Thrifty’s and the hardware store/with all those keys glittering in the window…” (lines 7-9) give the reader a sense of exaggeration. When the woman Addonizio is portraying goes on a random tangent with her thoughts, one can recognize that what she’s directly stating may not be what she truly means. When the reader understands that the thoughts of woman are hyperbolic, he or she is able to truly understand Addonizio’s purpose in her writing of this poem.
Although short “What Do Women Want?” is swarming with symbolism and representations of stereotypes placed on women. With its repetition and sentence structure, the reader is able to understand which stereotypes in particular that Addonizio is choosing to address. With her varied sentence structure, she generates a sarcastic tone that creates a mockery of these generalizations. This sarcastic voice enables to reader to truly understand what women rightly desire: to not be categorized and simplified by