Analysis Of Anne Michaels's Poem 'Women On The Beach'

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“Women on the Beach” is a poem written by Canadian author/writer Anne Michaels from Toronto, Ontario. Michaels is highly recognized for her collections of poetry, winning her several awards including the Canadian Author’s Associations Award in 1991. “Women on the Beach” is one of Michaels’ many popular poems, in which she uses rhetorical devices like imagery and symbolism to capture her audience. Within the very first line of the poem, “Light chooses while sails, the bellies of gulls” (Michaels, 1997, p.30), Michaels uses figurative imagery through the metaphor she creates comparing seagull bellies to the appearance of the beach and sails. This line also uses personification, where human traits are given to light when it “chooses” white

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