"Women" by Alice Walker
Today was pretty much magnificent! First blcok sucked as always. Second block was okay. And third block was, as usual, AMAZING! But that would be because Mr.Ogle is AMAZING! lol! Our essays on Alice Walker's "Women" is due tomorrow. I shall let you guys read it because my life is boring and I have nothing else to post!
“Women”
In “Women”, Alice Walker uses setting, diction, and imagery to show the struggles of women throughout history. Alice Walker creates the strong argument that women of today should remember their past, focus on their future, and take advantage of today because it will have a huge impact on their children’s generation.
Walker uses setting to emphasize the awkwardness of the jobs that these women had to do. In lines fifteen through eighteen, she says they went “across mined fields, booby-trapped ditches”. These places may have been common place for a man that was in the army, but not for a woman.
Walker uses diction to underline the already emphasized point that these women have struggled. She expresses that they did all sorts of jobs that no one really wanted to do but someone had to do. These jobs took strength and energy and represented their ability to do things that were unordinary; things unexpected of a woman.
Walker also uses imagery. She describes her mother’s generation of women as “husky of voice” and “stout of step”. These characteristics are usually words used to refer to a man since men are often portrayed as the stronger sex. The poem also shows how these women lived everyday lives most of the time but would jump into action when they were needed. They “ironed starched white shirts” but then “led armies” and “headdragged Generals”. This shows that while they may have been looked down upon, they were also depended upon for help.
The last five lines of the poem really expresses the whole reason she wrote it. "[They did all of these tasks] to discover books desks a place for us how they knew what we must know without knowing a page of it themselves.” These women did constructive and good things. They may have not been positive that it would help anyone, but they did it because they had no other choice. She takes the opportunity to tell the women of today that we shouldn’t take life
for granted. They did what they could to help us. Now it’s our job to do the same for the next generation of brave women. In “Women”, Walker uses setting, diction, and imagery to display the struggles women have faced throughout history. She tells us how her mother’s generation struggled just to get what they needed. But, they did whatever it took.
So, there's my essay. Oh fun. I hate not having any freedom at all on what poem to critique. Tis dumb, but that's okay.
Solo/Ensemble is on Monday.
“Women”
In “Women”, Alice Walker uses setting, diction, and imagery to show the struggles of women throughout history. Alice Walker creates the strong argument that women of today should remember their past, focus on their future, and take advantage of today because it will have a huge impact on their children’s generation.
Walker uses setting to emphasize the awkwardness of the jobs that these women had to do. In lines fifteen through eighteen, she says they went “across mined fields, booby-trapped ditches”. These places may have been common place for a man that was in the army, but not for a woman.
Walker uses diction to underline the already emphasized point that these women have struggled. She expresses that they did all sorts of jobs that no one really wanted to do but someone had to do. These jobs took strength and energy and represented their ability to do things that were unordinary; things unexpected of a woman.
Walker also uses imagery. She describes her mother’s generation of women as “husky of voice” and “stout of step”. These characteristics are usually words used to refer to a man since men are often portrayed as the stronger sex. The poem also shows how these women lived everyday lives most of the time but would jump into action when they were needed. They “ironed starched white shirts” but then “led armies” and “headdragged Generals”. This shows that while they may have been looked down upon, they were also depended upon for help.
The last five lines of the poem really expresses the whole reason she wrote it. "[They did all of these tasks] to discover books desks a place for us how they knew what we must know without knowing a page of it themselves.” These women did constructive and good things. They may have not been positive that it would help anyone, but they did it because they had no other choice. She takes the opportunity to tell the women of today that we shouldn’t take life
for granted. They did what they could to help us. Now it’s our job to do the same for the next generation of brave women. In “Women”, Walker uses setting, diction, and imagery to display the struggles women have faced throughout history. She tells us how her mother’s generation struggled just to get what they needed. But, they did whatever it took.
So, there's my essay. Oh fun. I hate not having any freedom at all on what poem to critique. Tis dumb, but that's okay.
Solo/Ensemble is on Monday.