Anon Flashcards

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What is it about?

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The anonymity of women, talents of women have been denied recognition. Their role is that of mothers in society.

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‘How she passed on her pen like a baton’

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  • Passing talents down the family line
  • May bring to mind a conductor’s baton — a field in which women have rarely been represented
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‘Anon’

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  • 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
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‘A woman I knew kept her skull on a shelf in the room’

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  • Could represent the talents she left to die as a woman (whose role was to be a mother)
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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
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