Being A Woman
Living life as a women in society can have difficulties. Society back then expected women to play a specific role of delicacy and a housewife. For men to go out and date various women can display as normal, but the opposite occurs when women have various relations. Women have higher expectations than men do. Edna differs from the other women in her society. She liked to date various men and women, and go out alot. She went to school and got an education. She did not characterize the type of woman to settle down. She expressed her life and how society viewed her through her poems. “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed Where and Why,” and “I Being Born a Woman and Distressed” displays two poems that described her love life, and how different …show more content…
It is a 4-4-4-2 structure. The fundamental break comes between the first eight lines (Octave) and the last six lines (Sestet). The poems form consists of a rhyming pattern. It portrays a formal poem. It also displays a personal story, because it contains emotion. In the poem it describes a woman that has dated various men in her life, but she does not remember the men she has dated. She dwells on wasted love. She lets readers know this in the first eight lines of the sonnet. The last six lines of the sonnet consists of imagery of nature to highlight her personal feelings of loss. In this poem the narrator can be transpired as constantly looking back at her youth. She describes her lost lovers to ghosts in the poem. She does this to represent the men or women that she once had relations with to a memory. Edna can be described as a woman who wins the hearts of others and immediately cuts them off and seeks others. She compares herself to a lonely tree which tells readers the narrator appears lonely. In this poem she has memories of living young and happy, but then her feelings consists of sadness because she wasted many chances at love. The readers understand this at the last two lines of the poem “I only knew that summer sang in me a little while, that in me sings no more.” This line also represents personification when she says “summer sang in me,” and “in me sings no
Living life as a women in society can have difficulties. Society back then expected women to play a specific role of delicacy and a housewife. For men to go out and date various women can display as normal, but the opposite occurs when women have various relations. Women have higher expectations than men do. Edna differs from the other women in her society. She liked to date various men and women, and go out alot. She went to school and got an education. She did not characterize the type of woman to settle down. She expressed her life and how society viewed her through her poems. “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed Where and Why,” and “I Being Born a Woman and Distressed” displays two poems that described her love life, and how different …show more content…
It is a 4-4-4-2 structure. The fundamental break comes between the first eight lines (Octave) and the last six lines (Sestet). The poems form consists of a rhyming pattern. It portrays a formal poem. It also displays a personal story, because it contains emotion. In the poem it describes a woman that has dated various men in her life, but she does not remember the men she has dated. She dwells on wasted love. She lets readers know this in the first eight lines of the sonnet. The last six lines of the sonnet consists of imagery of nature to highlight her personal feelings of loss. In this poem the narrator can be transpired as constantly looking back at her youth. She describes her lost lovers to ghosts in the poem. She does this to represent the men or women that she once had relations with to a memory. Edna can be described as a woman who wins the hearts of others and immediately cuts them off and seeks others. She compares herself to a lonely tree which tells readers the narrator appears lonely. In this poem she has memories of living young and happy, but then her feelings consists of sadness because she wasted many chances at love. The readers understand this at the last two lines of the poem “I only knew that summer sang in me a little while, that in me sings no more.” This line also represents personification when she says “summer sang in me,” and “in me sings no