Onto the actual title of the poem, “Power.” Is power a force for good? Can it be possible, or is it corrupt by nature? Whether power is good or not depends on who holds it. As Rich illustrates in her poem, power can be good for others but could be damaging to oneself. Power, however, cannot be possessed–but instead it can posses. With the words of Michel Foucault to back this up, power is not a possession, rather, it is the relationship between entities that determines knowledge and discourse to constitute society and our individual identities. We can direct power and influence it, but we can never take it as solely ours. Curie was able to take the power that was solely available to men and molded it in the direction she wanted it. She discovered
