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1
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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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15
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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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17
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Who wrote Chemin de Fer?

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Elizabeth Bishop

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18
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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?

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Anne Sexton

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What is Sylvia’s Death about?

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Death and talking about breakups
Fascination with death and dying

27
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Who wrote Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers?

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Adrienne Rich

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What is Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers about?

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Tigers aren’t afraid of anything so women shouldnt be either
Burden of marriage

29
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Who wrote A Valediction Forbidding Mourning?

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Ways to avoid mourning
Dying and death - accepting death

30
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Who wrote Ariel?

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Sylvia Plath

31
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What is Ariel about?

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About a horse
Sylvia’s point of view
About fixing oppression and equality

32
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Who wrote Daddy?

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Sylvia Plath

33
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What is Daddy about?

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Plath wrote to her father
Compare herself to a Jew and her father to a Nazi

34
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Who wrote lady Lazarus?

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Playful and powerful woman
Inhuman things done to people in Germany

35
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Who wrote Hanging Fire?

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Audre Lorde

36
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What is Hanging Fire about?

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How race has affected life
Younger generations speak up about injustice while older generations did not

37
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Who wrote miss Rosie?

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Lucille Clifton

38
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What is miss Rosie about?

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Power behind the woman
Watching a poor woman from a rich woman POV

39
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Who wrote the lost baby poem?

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Lucille Clifton

40
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What is the lost baby poem about?

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Mother apologizing
Abortion/miscarriage
Promise to child not to be a bad mom to her alive children

41
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Who wrote wishes for sons?

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Lucille Clifton

42
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What is wishes for sons about?

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Men not understanding woman life

43
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Who wrote the healers?

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Sharon Olds

44
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What is the healers about?

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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”

45
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Who wrote Dim Lady?

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Harryette Mullen

46
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What is Dim Lady about?

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From Shakespeare’s sonnet 130
About a woman and how she looks to a man

47
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Who wrote Mrs. Dalloway?

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Virginia Woolf

48
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What is Mrs. Dalloway about?

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Clarissa and Richard and Peter’s relationship
Clarissa’s party - seeing Sally again
Suicide - Clarissa kind of wants to die throughout the whole thing

49
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Who wrote a Room of One’s Own?

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Virginia Woolf

50
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What is A Room of One’s Own about?

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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.

51
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What is confessional poetry?

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I = poet
Mid 20th century
Need to confess - “we’re going to talk about everything”
Sexton and Plath authors

52
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Who created the Male Gaze?

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Laura Mulvey

53
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Who wrote Sweetie?

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Jane Campion

54
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What is Sweetie about?

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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

55
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Who wrote Mikey and Nicky?

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Elaine May

56
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What is Mikey and Nicky about?

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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

57
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Who wrote Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema?

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Laura Mulvey

58
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Who wrote Other Women?

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Casey Plett

59
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What was Other Women about?

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Sophie wanted to be accepted by her family
Bernie is the only one who says anything to her
Not being accepted is hard

60
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Who wrote The Attic?

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Gilbert and Gubar

61
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What is The Attic about?

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Have to kill angel and monster created by men
European literature only used
A lot more monsters mentioned than angels

62
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Who wrote Heart Berries?

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Terese Maihot

63
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What is Heart Berries about?

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3rd Wave Intersectionality
Indigenous woman with mental illness
Women want and men take
Smart and native = makes her crazy

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