Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
- trend
- 2nd wave of feminism
Anmerkungen:
- acquisition of personal voice, and control over the female body
- postmodernist trait
- engagement
with history
and identity
(away from
universalism)
- lang as social
construct in the
hands of men
Anmerkungen:
- struggle to find a female lang
- theme
- political poetry
- anti-woman woman
Anmerkungen:
- complex identity as poet/wife
- awareness of women's
historical oppression and
powerlessness
- new woman
against
patriarchal
values
- style
- formalism in
early poetry
- anger
Anmerkungen:
- rebellious woman resented with commitment to patriarchal patterns they were contributing to reproduce
- discarded early
finished, polished
style, abandonment
of poetry as careful
craft
- adopted fragmentariness
- academic, in
the tradition
of Eliot and
Pound
- home decried as
myth perpetuator of
patriarchal structures
- imagery of destruction
and death
- imagery
related to
body
- silent rebellious
woman, active but
linguistically quiet
- devices
- mythical
empowering
figure
- fragmentary
form: snapshots
as a photograph,
still moment
Anmerkungen:
- reveals a female state of mind
- free verse,
yet instances
of metrical
regularity and
end-rhyme
- title: being
named after
a social role
- collective
heritage:
Beauvoir,
Dickinson,
Woolf,
Wollstonecraft
Anmerkungen:
- female creativity (loaded gun)
- appropriation of
male elements:
quester, outdoor
scenarios
- flying woman
as a form of
resistance
- "I" avoided,
instead "you"
for daught/law
also addressing
a collectivity
- polivocality,
assuming voices
of silenced
women
- influence
- male forms: Frost, Wallace, Yeats