A Literary Analysis of the Poem Women by Deborah Pope (3069 words, 13 pages)
Deborah PopeThe collection's two central emotions--fear and denial--reach their nadirin the poem "Women." Whereas speakers in previous poems found it possible, evenconvincing, to place responsibility for isolation on forces such as tradition,magic, male figures, and age, the voice in "Women" internalizes the enemy andturns on her own feminine self. The ...
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