Adam And Eve Poem

“Adam and Eve” by Ani Difranco and “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid are two literary works that speak to the issue of how important it is to have a mother in a daughter’s life. It is the life experience(s) that can only be communicated to a daughter by her mother. The emotions, feeling and understanding of the female experience of what a woman goes through in life. When a young lady does not receive this information for the female prospective is the difference between socialites view and becoming of a “bad” or “good” girl. It is critical to have a mother in the life of a daughter to provide emotional balance, feeling and understanding from a woman’s point of view. In this comparison of “Girl”, a short story and “Adam and Eve”, the poem I hope to demo straight the
DiFranco’s poem “Adam And Eve” a darker tone is in play. This poem represents a woman who appears in one of free love. She lives in the moment and has no care or regrets for any of her actions. She is extremely free spirited and opened to almost any view on life. To this woman life is what it is and she is going to do things her way and only her way. There is a point in the poem where she may question her actions “I am truly sorry about all this” (DiFranco pg. 1263), but demises it and continue on. The poem is a reflection of a young woman truly left to figure out who she is and where she is going.
In researching for additional analogies of this poem I found little and next to nothing. Therefore I shall have to support my findings with interpretations from the biblical story of “On Reason, Faith, and Freedom in “Paradise Lost.” by William Walker. I shall specifically be referring to Eve, as she is the one the serpent came to in the story. Eve shall represent Ms. A. DiFranco, God shall represent Ms. DiFranco’s mother, and the Serpent various other persons in her life. Note, the serpent is neither evil nor good, just someone presenting the information to this young