“If Ever The Lid Gets Off My Head”, “Mama Never Forgets Her Birds”, and “Have Any Like Myself” explain many things in her life through the words of the poems. “If Ever The Lid Gets Off My Head” explains how she didn’t believe what everyone else wanted her too. In her time period, women had to follow the rules of the man of the house. Women were supposed to be at home; cooking, cleaning and watching the children. Emily didn’t believe in that, and she wanted to do what she wanted to do. This part of “If Ever The Lid Gets Off My Head” explains how if she were to ever start to lean toward their views that she would see how far she was from herself and she would come back to her original
“If Ever The Lid Gets Off My Head”, “Mama Never Forgets Her Birds”, and “Have Any Like Myself” explain many things in her life through the words of the poems. “If Ever The Lid Gets Off My Head” explains how she didn’t believe what everyone else wanted her too. In her time period, women had to follow the rules of the man of the house. Women were supposed to be at home; cooking, cleaning and watching the children. Emily didn’t believe in that, and she wanted to do what she wanted to do. This part of “If Ever The Lid Gets Off My Head” explains how if she were to ever start to lean toward their views that she would see how far she was from herself and she would come back to her original