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Who wrote Songs to Joannes?

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Mina Loy

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What is Songs to Joannes about?

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Pregnancy
Becoming one for a child
Child of two - loving for children

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Who wrote Oread?

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H.D.

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What is Oread about?

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Nature Spirit
Sea related to a pine tree

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Who wrote A Grave?

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Marianne Moore

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What is A Grave about?

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The sea
Immortality
The sea collecting bodies - WWI reference
Falling into the sea with death approaching

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Who wrote I, being born a woman and distressed?

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Edna Millay

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What is I, being born a woman and distressed?

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Sonnet about being born a woman

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Who wrote I Too beneath your moon, almighty sex?

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Edna Millay

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What is I too beneath your moon, almighty sex about?

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Romantic love to dealing with sexuality
Sexually liberated instead of stuck at home
Not covering it up/ making it pretty - all natural beauty

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Who wrote Not waving but drowning?

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Stevie Smith

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What is not waving but drowning about?

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Being invisible/misunderstood
Trying to be seen by others, but always being misunderstood
Social isolation - dying inside kind of feel

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Who wrote Paean to Place?

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Lorine Niedecker

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What is Paean to Place about?

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Mix of nature and divorce
Nature is an escape
Nature and books helps her escape her life

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Who wrote Casabianca?

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Elizabeth Bishop

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What is Casabianca about?

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Boy who died with his father in the Battle of the Nile
You can’t be stubborn with love
Understand when it is time to move on

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Who wrote Chemin de Fer?

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Elizabeth Bishop

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What is Chemin de Fer about?

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Finding your identity
You shoudn’t keep your love a secret
Love who you love

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Who wrote One Art?

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Elizabeth Bishop

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What is One Art about?

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The art of losing isn’t hard to master/ disaster
Instructions to self to fake it till you make it

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Who wrote We Real Cool?

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Gwendolyn Brooks

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What is We Real Cool about?

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Teenagers waiting to be cool
Skipping school and staying out late
Lifestyle they lead may lead to death or addictions

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Who wrote What Were They Like?

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Denise Levertov

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What is What Were They Like about?

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The Vietnam War
Don’t know how the people are, they all died
Bombs and bomb sounds

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Who wrote Sylvia’s Death?
Anne Sexton
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What is Sylvia’s Death about?
Death and talking about breakups Fascination with death and dying
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Who wrote Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers?
Adrienne Rich
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What is Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers about?
Tigers aren’t afraid of anything so women shouldnt be either Burden of marriage
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Who wrote A Valediction Forbidding Mourning?
Ways to avoid mourning Dying and death - accepting death
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Who wrote Ariel?
Sylvia Plath
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What is Ariel about?
About a horse Sylvia’s point of view About fixing oppression and equality
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Who wrote Daddy?
Sylvia Plath
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What is Daddy about?
Plath wrote to her father Compare herself to a Jew and her father to a Nazi
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Who wrote lady Lazarus?
Playful and powerful woman Inhuman things done to people in Germany
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Who wrote Hanging Fire?
Audre Lorde
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What is Hanging Fire about?
How race has affected life Younger generations speak up about injustice while older generations did not
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Who wrote miss Rosie?
Lucille Clifton
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What is miss Rosie about?
Power behind the woman Watching a poor woman from a rich woman POV
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Who wrote the lost baby poem?
Lucille Clifton
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What is the lost baby poem about?
Mother apologizing Abortion/miscarriage Promise to child not to be a bad mom to her alive children
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Who wrote wishes for sons?
Lucille Clifton
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What is wishes for sons about?
Men not understanding woman life
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Who wrote the healers?
Sharon Olds
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What is the healers about?
Two of the same occupation would be together Broke up with his wife because she wasn’t a doctor “He did not feel happy when words were called for, and I stood”
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Who wrote Dim Lady?
Harryette Mullen
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What is Dim Lady about?
From Shakespeare’s sonnet 130 About a woman and how she looks to a man
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Who wrote Mrs. Dalloway?
Virginia Woolf
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What is Mrs. Dalloway about?
Clarissa and Richard and Peter’s relationship Clarissa’s party - seeing Sally again Suicide - Clarissa kind of wants to die throughout the whole thing
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Who wrote a Room of One’s Own?
Virginia Woolf
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What is A Room of One’s Own about?
Women need a room of their own and money to be able to write fiction Gender from one lens - taking things for granted If their mother’s wouldn’t go outside the social norms, why would their daughters think about doing it.
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What is confessional poetry?
I = poet Mid 20th century Need to confess - “we’re going to talk about everything” Sexton and Plath authors
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Who created the Male Gaze?
Laura Mulvey
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Who wrote Sweetie?
Jane Campion
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What is Sweetie about?
Kay and Sweetie are sisters and its about their life Sweetie is ill and does not get treated well by her family THE TREE Sweetie dies
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Who wrote Mikey and Nicky?
Elaine May
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What is Mikey and Nicky about?
They are friends, Nicky is being hunted by a hit man, Mikey is helping the hit man They go to Null’s house and hit on her, she wants to be smart Mikey goes home, after getting mad at Nicky Nicky goes to his house and gets killed
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Who wrote Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema?
Laura Mulvey
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Who wrote Other Women?
Casey Plett
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What was Other Women about?
Sophie wanted to be accepted by her family Bernie is the only one who says anything to her Not being accepted is hard
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Who wrote The Attic?
Gilbert and Gubar
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What is The Attic about?
Have to kill angel and monster created by men European literature only used A lot more monsters mentioned than angels
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Who wrote Heart Berries?
Terese Maihot
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What is Heart Berries about?
3rd Wave Intersectionality Indigenous woman with mental illness Women want and men take Smart and native = makes her crazy

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