Bhatt’s “Muliebrity” and Ferlinghetti‘s “Two scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes” portray the identity between people. In “Muliebrity”, the poet explores the role of a woman. The poet demonstrates her feeling toward the women who was picking the cow-dung by using first person view. Although the writer’s main purpose was trying to show the theme of womanhood, but she is also playing with the prospection of a woman.
The poet uses imagery to set the scene in India. In line four “Radhavallabh temple” are a religious place and “Maninagar” is located in India and is where the poet was born. In India, a woman has no rights to learn or get respected by man which means that they are at the bottom of the social class. Linking …show more content…
Muliebrity equals to womanhood, meaning woman’s power and the quality of women, which women should be proud of. However, in this poem the title and the action of the girl had become a contrast because picking cow-dung isn’t a pleasant thing to do and what the girl was doing actually make herself looked humble instead of showing woman’s power. By using this contrast, the girl’s identity is more stand out.
In Ferlinghetti‘s “Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes”, the poet explored the theme of identity between rich and poor by demonstrating the two scavengers on its way home and seeing two rich people in a Mercedes, who was just about to go to work. In this poem, the poet expresses his feeling through contrast and at the end he uses irony to aware the reader that people were unequal in …show more content…
For example, in line twenty-two, the two scavengers was referred as “Gargoyle Quasimodo” which is a type of monster that has hunched back. Ferlinghetti uses this simile to help establish the connection between the monster and the two scavengers. The two scavengers have hunched back, but people called them a monster which is a rude attitude, showing disrespectful. He points out how people treat those lower social class as monster or naming giving them unpleasant names.
The poem gives a vivid description to show the gap between the rich and poor. The purpose of this poem is to convey the message of society is unfair and the poet shows this using irony at the last line “Of this democracy.” This line stated that everyone has the rights, privileges and equal, which sounded ridiculous after reading the poem because nothing was equal at all. By using irony, it makes a stronger statement between social inequalities because people reflects the character’s
The poet uses imagery to set the scene in India. In line four “Radhavallabh temple” are a religious place and “Maninagar” is located in India and is where the poet was born. In India, a woman has no rights to learn or get respected by man which means that they are at the bottom of the social class. Linking …show more content…
Muliebrity equals to womanhood, meaning woman’s power and the quality of women, which women should be proud of. However, in this poem the title and the action of the girl had become a contrast because picking cow-dung isn’t a pleasant thing to do and what the girl was doing actually make herself looked humble instead of showing woman’s power. By using this contrast, the girl’s identity is more stand out.
In Ferlinghetti‘s “Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes”, the poet explored the theme of identity between rich and poor by demonstrating the two scavengers on its way home and seeing two rich people in a Mercedes, who was just about to go to work. In this poem, the poet expresses his feeling through contrast and at the end he uses irony to aware the reader that people were unequal in …show more content…
For example, in line twenty-two, the two scavengers was referred as “Gargoyle Quasimodo” which is a type of monster that has hunched back. Ferlinghetti uses this simile to help establish the connection between the monster and the two scavengers. The two scavengers have hunched back, but people called them a monster which is a rude attitude, showing disrespectful. He points out how people treat those lower social class as monster or naming giving them unpleasant names.
The poem gives a vivid description to show the gap between the rich and poor. The purpose of this poem is to convey the message of society is unfair and the poet shows this using irony at the last line “Of this democracy.” This line stated that everyone has the rights, privileges and equal, which sounded ridiculous after reading the poem because nothing was equal at all. By using irony, it makes a stronger statement between social inequalities because people reflects the character’s