The metaphors that Conrad Hilberry stated in his poem “The Frying Pan”, expressed some of the feelings that some women encounter throughout their life.
In this poem I believe that Hilberry related this poem to a female that was in a relationship with a very controlling guy.
In the first stanza it says “I am another long-necked girl with the same face.”, a girl that has the same face makes me think of a girl that has no expressions, and hardly ever shows emotion, and this could be because she was controlled by her boyfriend or husband.
Throughout the first stanza it states “I am emptiness reflected in a looking glass, a head kept by a collar and leash”, the first thing that comes to my mind when I read that is that there is a girl that feels empty inside, and that she is kept on a leash by her significant other. Some examples of this could be that her significant other could have beaten her, or verbally abused her by telling her that should could not do certain things, and that can relate to being on a leash. Also in the first stanza it says “a round belly with something knocking to get in”, this could refer to her boyfriend or husband. From saying a round belly this might mean that he is over weight, and saying that something is knocking to get in could mean that all he wants to do is to have sexual intercourse with her, as in the “something knocking” refers to his penis, and “to get in” could refer to her vagina.
In the Second Stanza when it says to cross the handle and she would become Venus could refer to breaking up with her significant other and having the confidence of being attractive because Venus is the goddess of love.
victimised her and that each of them has a part to play and a partly
I really admire the phrases author used to describe the feelings , emotions , visions and thoughts of that woman .
The poem begins by saying ‘I was a cottage maiden’. It is a simple beginning, talking in the past tense. She tells us she is lower class person.
‘The woman’ of the poem has no specific identity and this helps us even further see the situation in which the woman is experiencing, the lost of one’s identity. Questions start to be raised and we wonder if Harwood uses this character to portray her views of every woman which goes into the stage of motherhood, where much sacrifice is needed one being the identity that was present in society prior to children.
Although her stomach is still flat 12 years later, she says the area above her stomach, the midriff, ballooned with fat...
hopelessness covered all her pleasure and she thought that she would never get a better
fat’. We are not told why this is but we know ‘[her] life is going to
The speaker begins the poem an ethereal tone masking the violent nature of her subject matter. The poem is set in the Elysian Fields, a paradise where the souls of the heroic and virtuous were sent (cite). Through her use of the words “dreamed”, “sweet women”, “blossoms” and
is masked by something, whether it be by a material object or one of her personality traits. The
Previously, the narrator has intimated, “She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves. They had never taken the form of struggles. They belonged to her and were her own.” Her thoughts and emotions engulf her, but she does not “struggle” with them. They “belonged to her and were her own.” She does not have to share them with anyone; conversely, she must share her life and her money with her husband and children and with the many social organizations and functions her role demands.
...alized that “a girl was not, as [she] had supposed, simply what [she] was; it was what [she] had to become” she was starting to admit defeat, and then finally when she begins to cry, it is here that the narrator understands that there is no escape from the pre-determined duties that go along with the passage of a child into being a girl, and a girl into a woman, and that “even in her heart. Maybe it (her understanding that conforming is unstoppable) was true”
It can be concluded that the speaker is a caring and loving gentleman. The narrator of the poem is a young gentleman whom can also be perceived as Edgar Allan Poe himself. “That a maiden there lived whom you may know/ By the name of Annabel Lee” (line 3, 4). The poem is about a person loving a woman; therefore it is positively obvious and apparent that the narrator is a gentleman. There are also repetitions of the words “I” and “my” throughout the whole poem, which confirms that the narrator is in fact Edgar Allan Poe himself. “And, so all the night-tide, I lie down by the side/ Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride” (line 38, 39). The use of the words “I” and “my” supports the theory that the person narrating the poem is Edgar Allan Poe. It is also visible that the speaker is very sad and emotional about the loss of his wife. The narrator is having a difficult time getting over the death of Annabel Lee which is apparent in the last stanza. He still sleeps by her even though she is
A possible theme that could be seen in this poem is the sexual relationship he has with several woman even though he talks about one specific woman. The speaker states: “They flee from me, that sometime did me seek/ With naked foot stalking in my chamber” (1-2). Here we see the several women coming into his chamber and along with these lines in stanza one the others show how he has relations with them. The speaker also states: “Thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise/ Twenty times better; but once in special,/ In thin array, after a pleasant guise,/ When her loose gown from her shoulders did fal...