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One of Elizabeth’s poems that we think is
Marxist is the poem called, “One Art”, because it talks about how she lived her life. In the stanza where she
says, “the art of losing isn’t hard to master”. We interpret it as the way she was living. People around
her had more then what she did, such as people had mothers and fathers for one, and many belongings (toys, friends, and stability)
that other people had, but she did not own or have. She lived her life moving from one place to the other feeling lost and
abandon. While other’s were stable were they were at. Elizabeth lived a hard and unstable life that she made best of
what she could do with it. Poetry was one of her strongest abilities in telling readers all about her life. Writing poetry
was one thing that kept her moving around the world. Elizabeth’s sense of accomplishments through award winning poetry
gave her a purpose to live. In other words, money, hopes, and dreams.
Feminist View
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One of Elizabeth’s poems that we think is feminist is the poem called,
“In the Waiting Room”, because she is talking about looking like someone or something. Elizabeth doesn’t
want to look like other people, she wants to be herself. She likes the way she looks. She talks about the different people
in the stanzas from babies, to people sitting around in the waiting room at a dentist office. In the stanza where she says,
“to see what it was I was”, we are interpreting it as, she has to look like the people in the waiting room, but
then she comes to her senses that everyone is different in their own way rather people like it or not. We also interpret the
stanza on the first page, “the national geographic that she sees the picture”, as how people in the waiting room
should and should not look. She also seems to be judging the people that are sitting around in the waiting room. The poem
explains the feminist approach because it describes the looks of people in a waiting room.
Literary Theory View (Atmosphere)
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Elizabeth’s poem “Visits to St. Elizabeth’s” is a
literary theory (atmosphere) because she talks about a man who could very possibly be a sad, old, and grumpy man. In the stanza’s
were she says, “the man that lies in the house of Bedlam”, we interpret it as a man who possibly lost everything
in his life, and that he lives in a little old house all alone with nothing to live for anymore. We also interpret it as a
sailor trying to reach out for the old man to help, or save him from something. The poem uses the word time repeatedly, and
we can only think of it as maybe only a few minutes to live, or maybe there’s a bad storm out, and the man only has
a few minutes to get out of harms way.
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