The Language Of The Brag Summary

Sharon Olds a poet that breaks the mold by putting woman issues and taboo subjects on the forefront such as in her poem “The Girl” which explain the encounter of a young girl and her friend being brutally rape; or in the poem “Sex without Love” which expose inner thoughts of loneliness without love. But one of the greatest example from my reading of Sharon Olds poems is that of “The Language of the Brag,” where Olds demonstrate a woman view of her pregnancy and the labor of birth of her child. This is an example of women writers seize the power of their own bodies by sharing women experience and by outlining the strength of a woman during childbirth.
One reason why “the Language of the Brag” exemplifies Olds as a women writer that seize the …show more content…
In Olds poem it also demonstrates the strength of a woman, not only by the pain of child birth, but also the strength of courage with the emotional toil that childbirth comes with. The Olds demonstrates that the stereotypes that woman are fragile during pregnancy is false. Pregnancy makes woman stronger than ever. For example strength of woman have spoken to me once before this poem in a book called “solider on the home front “I was greatly collide by the fact childbirth alone woman commonly suffer more pain. Illness and misery then any war hero ever does. An what’s her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she’s disfigured by birth, her children soon leave hear beauty is gone woman who struggle and suffer pain. ”Anne frank” but we still In society dominated by men. To conclude, “The Language of the Brag,” by Sharon Olds exemplifies the work of women writers seize the power of their own bodies. Sharon Olds accomplish this by sharing women experience and by outlining the strength of a woman during childbirth. In today society where men dominate it is important to have woman writers such as Sharon Olds who breaks the mold and illustrates a voice for