Anon Flashcards
1
Q
What is it about?
A
The anonymity of women, talents of women have been denied recognition. Their role is that of mothers in society.
2
Q
‘How she passed on her pen like a baton’
A
- Passing talents down the family line
- May bring to mind a conductor’s baton — a field in which women have rarely been represented
3
Q
‘Anon’
A
- Used at the end of stanzas it sounds like its building an idea but it never comes - bathos
- Women having a lack of identity/anonymity
4
Q
‘A woman I knew kept her skull on a shelf in the room’
A
- Could represent the talents she left to die as a woman (whose role was to be a mother)
5
Q
Links to Streetcar
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- Idea of women being voiceless
- Disregard for the talents of women- Stella doesn’t work, we don’t know what she has the potential to do
- The unnamed woman