Maid Mild Poem Analysis

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The metaphor that the narrator refers herself not as a princess, but a maid mild (line 6) brings another element to the poem that Brooks attends for readers to notice. Does the narrator, a white woman, not see herself as equal as her prince (husband), a white man? Seeing that he abuses her (line 104), and her kids, the narrator is clear that she’s not. The metaphor alludes to the fact that women aren’t equal to their male counterparts – the same as blacks aren’t equal to whites- and the maid mild metaphor instead of a princess supports the idea as she’s in the kitchen cooking (referred in the title, and stanza 3), a place often associated to woman versus a man in the time the publication of the poem (1960). The use of the maid mild supports

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