Throughout the years, women have fought for the same rights as men do. Some may argue that women are still doing this with the current wage gap and the fight against sexual assault. But poet Carmen Giménez Smith does this in a different way. In her poetry, she shows the raw reality of being a female in the darkest ways. Giménez Smith work explores many issues that affect the lives of females. Many of her works have an underlying tone of brutally honest realism in it. For example, in “Bleeding Heart”, Giménez Smith shows vivid imagery in this poem. This poem is a one stanza, 22 lines, free verse poem, which seems to be the poet’s preferred style of writing. This poem can be broken down into two parts: the little heart bleeding and the big
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Or don't. I'll find it.
My kind always does.
This poem is written with nine stanzas, each with couplets, which is vastly different from her previous poem. This poem also has a much different tone compared to the other. In “Bleeding Heart”, the poet sounds almost desperate. But this is not the case in “Pillow Talk”. In the beginning of the poem, Giménez Smith states her situation as a female slave. She writes about how she’s under someone’s thumb but they somehow “got here the same way you did”. She also mentions how the other person promised her and that they did not fulfill those promises. But in the end is seems like she seems fine with this because she doesn’t need anyone and will take things into her own hands. In an additional poem, Giménez Smith revisits the somber, depressing tone she original portrayed in “Bleeding Heart”. Yet, the tone seems totally different from the other poems. In “The Daughter”, she writes,
We said she was a negative image of me because of her lightness.
She's light and also passage, the glory in my cortex.
Daughter, where did you get all that goddess?
Her eyes are Neruda's two dark pools at twilight.
Sometimes she's a stranger in my home because I hadn't imagined …show more content…
In the first poem, “Bleeding Heart”, Giménez Smith sounds broken and depressed. She’s overly sensitive over everything and her heart is bleeding out for it. She bleeds so much she dries up like a raisin. And like a raisin she becomes tougher. In the second poem, “Pillow Talk”, Giménez Smith shows exactly this. She is no longer a slave. She will take matters in her own hands and take care of herself. She has no sorrow for anyone. But in the third poem, “The Daughter”, her tone softens much more. She still has that underlying ominous tone, but not as broken as it was in “Bleeding Heart”. Her priority is no longer just herself, but her daughter as well. She’s worried she will become
Or don't. I'll find it.
My kind always does.
This poem is written with nine stanzas, each with couplets, which is vastly different from her previous poem. This poem also has a much different tone compared to the other. In “Bleeding Heart”, the poet sounds almost desperate. But this is not the case in “Pillow Talk”. In the beginning of the poem, Giménez Smith states her situation as a female slave. She writes about how she’s under someone’s thumb but they somehow “got here the same way you did”. She also mentions how the other person promised her and that they did not fulfill those promises. But in the end is seems like she seems fine with this because she doesn’t need anyone and will take things into her own hands. In an additional poem, Giménez Smith revisits the somber, depressing tone she original portrayed in “Bleeding Heart”. Yet, the tone seems totally different from the other poems. In “The Daughter”, she writes,
We said she was a negative image of me because of her lightness.
She's light and also passage, the glory in my cortex.
Daughter, where did you get all that goddess?
Her eyes are Neruda's two dark pools at twilight.
Sometimes she's a stranger in my home because I hadn't imagined …show more content…
In the first poem, “Bleeding Heart”, Giménez Smith sounds broken and depressed. She’s overly sensitive over everything and her heart is bleeding out for it. She bleeds so much she dries up like a raisin. And like a raisin she becomes tougher. In the second poem, “Pillow Talk”, Giménez Smith shows exactly this. She is no longer a slave. She will take matters in her own hands and take care of herself. She has no sorrow for anyone. But in the third poem, “The Daughter”, her tone softens much more. She still has that underlying ominous tone, but not as broken as it was in “Bleeding Heart”. Her priority is no longer just herself, but her daughter as well. She’s worried she will become