Women in Poetry

Ones could write for a lot of purposes and that depend on ones stand about something. When it comes to poetry not very much people can go around digging its meaning especially that it is different from one another and one of the contrast is the gender point of view.

In my opinion women poet seems to be influence so much of their inner deep feeling about something they engage about. For example in the two poems that we discuss before “Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl” and “All Things Not Considered” by Naomi Shihab Nye, was written by giving emphasis on her own past experience, which is what most poet will do. It is more on describing the condition and situation of a certain place, happening to a certain group of people but there are so many issues to be considered.

She talks about politics, culture, religion and discrimination in the same time. That is all added to the aesthetic value of a literary work. I myself had one women poet that I really admire since I first read her poem; “There’s been a death in the opposite house”, written by Emily Dickinson. But she had one poem that is so lovely and temperate, it will absolutely gives you a good feeling when you read it.

 Besides the Autumn poets sing

Besides the Autumn poets sing
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the Haze –

A few incisive mornings –
A few Ascetic eves –
Gone – Mr. Bryant's "Golden Rod" –
And Mr. Thomson's "sheaves."

Still, is the bustle in the Brook –
Sealed are the spicy valves –
Mesmeric fingers softly touch
The eyes of many Elves –

Perhaps a squirrel may remain –
My sentiments to share –
Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind –
Thy windy will to bear!

It is as she wants to tell that inside the season of autumn there is both happiness and sadness that mingled in our feelings, which giving us both hope and despair in the same time, which I think a good thing to have such feeling sometimes.

Summarizing my thought, I think women are capable of exploring many more issues by using poetry as a medium.