ENG222 Flashcards
what has a influence on her self image
sexual idenity
The figurative and literal representations of the speaker’s self-image:
are depicted by anorexia, as a result of deeply routed aversion to her sexual identity.
Satire (genre)
use humor, exaggeration to expose vice, hypocrisy, political or social behavior
How do child girls view a grown women
As a grave
A social constructionist explanation of gender difference
Social construction theory sees gender-based social inequality dictates women’s roles, access to opportunities, and value
An essentialist explanation of gender difference
essentialism sees gender difference in terms of biology, essential traits, “nature”
Why does the speaker aspire to be “thin as a rib”
Symbolizes Eve being made from the rib of Adam, before the fall.
Death in the sense of trying to attain
perfection
What sort of relationship to her body does the speaker’s images convey: breasts as “digressive”; flesh as “interfering”; limbs capable of “blossoming” and therefore of “deceit”?
Idea the body is betraying, interfering with what she wants, deceiving her from what she wants, doesn’t want to eat and to stay away from death
Intersectionality
A way of describing identities that accounts for individuals social locations within numerous systems of oppression
When I was growing up by Clifton
Speaker longed during the ages of growing up to be white.
My dream about being white by Wong
Speaker wants to be white, at the end of the poem dances (uses music) to accept the color of their skin
Internalize
making the dominant group’s beliefs your own
Colorism
prejudice against dark-skin within non-white ethnic/racial groups
Horizontal hostility
When members of a marginalized identity group enforce systemic oppression against marginalized groups
Langston Hughes “Mother to Son” (1922) Speaker
A women talking to her son, who has not had an easy life, southern vernacular, black vernacular
Clifton “wishes for sons” (1987) speaker
A female speaker, aggravated by mens arrogance
Clifton “wishes for sons” (1987) tone
aggravated by mens arrogance
Langston Hughes “Mother to Son” (1922) tone
stern, humbleness to the speaker, humility to this speaker, instead of triumph there is a tone of perseverance.
Marilyn Monroe
first sex figure, her body was seen as an ideal, her body was a subject to idolization
How do the ambulance men treat the body of Marilyn Monroe?
They moved the body like an object, moved her hair , closed her eyes, tied her, they respected the body. They treated the body as if it was still Marilyn Monroe.
Why do you imagine “These men were never the same” (11)? Why can’t they “meet / each other’s eyes” (13-14) In the “Death of Marilyn Monroe”
-These men like all men sexualized Monroe’s body, and now that her body is the only thing left they feel shame and guilt.
-Too overwhelming to come face to face with dead Marilyn Monroe, hard to process
What is Marilyn Monroe dead body a symbol of
Death and Mortality
What is the “this” of the poem titled “This”?
the speaker’s body
