Later-20th-Century Poets - Book Report/Review Example

Clifton may be felt to have implicitly spoken of a hidden domestic struggle in her own frame of reference based on the apparent influence of that age. On expressing “now it is done”, she occurs to celebrate her resolve for the new chapter of life, leaving behind the “girl” or that embodiment of the “beautiful” events through the tender times bygone. “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks must have begun “The Mother” with second person view for the necessity of realization outside oneself through the ambiguity in using ‘You’ as if to generate a resonance of accusation somewhere.

‘The children you got that you did not get’ becomes an emphatic statement that justifies the lurking of guilt. Brooks attempts at the horrible memories to operate on carrying a sorrowful burden toward a number of wonderful possibilities if one had not thrown the chance of completing her motherhood and the phrases of love in the middle make it all the more excruciating. Consequently, the poet ensures the regretful reader that she is not alone in the newly-found struggle with conscience and enters into a mode of soliloquy to bring across her own sentiments.

As an unfulfilled mother once, she experiences being haunted by ‘the voices of my dim killed children’ that tells of her appalling fact. “On a Night of the Full Moon” by Audre Lorde Like Clifton and Brooks, Audre Lorde bears a theme in her poetics which engages the rather untold concerns of women regarding sexuality. With her feisty attitude as a black poet with feminist ideals, Lorde comes up with “On a Night of the Full Moon” with images of a woman’s appeal to love and the man lover’s most sensible ways by which she desires being touched as they make love.

The poem quite reflects Lorde’s principle that “love is a source of tremendous power.” As the composer speaks from a male’s perspective by “your breasts warm as sunlight . between your thighs the sweet sharp taste of limes”, her descriptive approach suggests to the partner the level of intimacy she anticipates he would passionately treat her with while his “fingers conceive” her “flesh” and his “eyes judging” her “delightful roundness.” In its exuberance, the work has achieved Lorde’s reference to life force.

“In Celebration of My Uterus” by Anne Sexton Anne Sexton’s “In Celebration of My Uterus” pays equivalent regard for the woman’s unique essence in assuming the vital role of fruition at the time it is considered nothing more than an ordinary task. Sexton perceives uterus beyond the reproductive organ it has widely been identified for and empowers it as a listener of the poet’s tributary thoughts and festive behavior toward womanhood. She further acclaims the meaning built in the function of the uterus claiming “There is enough here to please a nation.

” To her, pregnancy is a “sweet weight” and such optimism leads her to stir to imagination the striking parallels between the childbearing organ and the precious notion of planting and harvesting. Eventually, Sexton turns out to draw political struggle out of the “immeasurably empty” and cheerfully defies it by characterizing womb as capable of celebrating with the woman who greets her with “