women's work
Dominique Johnson
English 1 A
14 October 2013 The Life of a Women’s Work In my essay, I intend to compare and contrast the poems. Woman by Kishaw Naheed and Woman Work by Maya Angelou. The two poems look at the lives of two Women from different cultures and traditions. Kishwar Naheed is one of the leading poets of Pakistan. Naheed writes about tradition of arranged marriages and the struggles of being a women in her culture. Maya Angelou is a Black American women from Arkansas. Maya writes about the daily struggles of a working class woman in America. In these two poems they are different in culture but similar in the daily struggles as women in a male dominated society. Kishwar Naheed is a very successful woman who takes on the customs and traditions of her Asian background. Throughout the poem she tells of the difficulties that particular problems women faces in her culture. In the poem the first verse “I am not that women” she is angry because people in her religion are acting as if she is a slave.Naheed is arguing against the stereotype of a women being obedient. The second line she says “selling you socks and shoes” this means that she is not the women in the poster half-naked mentioned in verse 5, line 4 she doesn’t want to be associated with women that are doing that to get attention. In line 3 she says “while you roamed free as the breeze, not knowing.” This refers to me in my opinion like an animal many of ways animals roams free in the world. She give me an impression that she is a free spirit who would like to do what she wants and follow her dreams. As a man would be able to do. However she can’t do this because she is restricted by her society. Also “not knowing” is repeated throughout the poem because she wants to make a statement to the man and the rest of society how women around her are feeling because women are not allowed to express their feelings. At the beginning of verse 2 “I am the one
English 1 A
14 October 2013 The Life of a Women’s Work In my essay, I intend to compare and contrast the poems. Woman by Kishaw Naheed and Woman Work by Maya Angelou. The two poems look at the lives of two Women from different cultures and traditions. Kishwar Naheed is one of the leading poets of Pakistan. Naheed writes about tradition of arranged marriages and the struggles of being a women in her culture. Maya Angelou is a Black American women from Arkansas. Maya writes about the daily struggles of a working class woman in America. In these two poems they are different in culture but similar in the daily struggles as women in a male dominated society. Kishwar Naheed is a very successful woman who takes on the customs and traditions of her Asian background. Throughout the poem she tells of the difficulties that particular problems women faces in her culture. In the poem the first verse “I am not that women” she is angry because people in her religion are acting as if she is a slave.Naheed is arguing against the stereotype of a women being obedient. The second line she says “selling you socks and shoes” this means that she is not the women in the poster half-naked mentioned in verse 5, line 4 she doesn’t want to be associated with women that are doing that to get attention. In line 3 she says “while you roamed free as the breeze, not knowing.” This refers to me in my opinion like an animal many of ways animals roams free in the world. She give me an impression that she is a free spirit who would like to do what she wants and follow her dreams. As a man would be able to do. However she can’t do this because she is restricted by her society. Also “not knowing” is repeated throughout the poem because she wants to make a statement to the man and the rest of society how women around her are feeling because women are not allowed to express their feelings. At the beginning of verse 2 “I am the one