Female Perspective in Poetry
In my initial draft of my research project proposal I wanted to explore how gender played a role in how poetry is written between females and males. After reading the springboard, “Poetry is Not a Luxury.” I decided to shift of how female poets all share common experiences and their influence on never giving up their voices with all the gender norms in society.
I used the springboard post to further explore my research in the topic by exploring female traditions and cultures in American poetry which I want to continue to expand and find more research topics to continue with my bibliography. Lorde comes from a West Indian background which also connects to Elemental women which speaks about how it is to come from that culture. Using the common traditions that both of the writing uses shows the common topic of wanting to go back to embracing where they came from. This shows that the history runs in a common loop but it is the writing of these female poets that shares the experiences of being from that culture and growing up in America.
This short article* is a late nineteenth century article that focuses on women not giving up hope. Audre Lorde is an American writer who was born in New York City and was raised by West Indian parents. Her writing is passionate about civil and social injustices and is known by the Poetry Foundation as powerful, melodic, and intense. She believes, “we become more in touch with our own ancient, black, non-european view of living as a situation to be experienced and interacted with, we learn more and more to cherish our feelings,” (Page 1). She embraces her ideas from her parents and her culture. Even though she was born in America she relates more with her parents culture and how it empowers her to be a woman in poetry. Working with how this can also relate back to Elemental women then both are similar in their expressions of being from the West Indian background and understanding the emotions behind how it is to be a woman in their positions. “For there are no new ideas” (Page 2). This could be that the history of women constantly runs in a loop and its up to us to create ways to form expressions and hold on hope.
*Lorde, Audre. “Poetry Is Not a Luxury.” WordPress, Jan. 2014, makinglearning.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/poetry-is-not-a-luxury-audre-lorde.pdf.
This essay* explore the impact women have on poetry. Annie Finch is an award winning poet and cultural critic who explores the idea of how women’s writing has repeated and grown into a traditional form of poetry. This will be a huge opening to how all the articles discussed in the research paper will be formed around. Women in America have all shared the struggle of being stepped over in our society and how we continue to ignore what others tell us to do.
*Finch, Annie. “Female Tradition as Feminist Innovation by Annie…” Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation, 2 Aug. 2010, www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69567/female-tradition-as-feminist-innovation.
