1 / 6

Rock It

Rock It. Emily Wells 3/2/14. “Woman Work” Maya Angelou. Diction: The diction is very clear about what the speaker is doing. It is also very informal, as if the speaker is having a conversation with a friend. “I’ve got the children to tend/The clothes to mend” “I gotta clean up this hut”

denali
Télécharger la présentation

Rock It

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Rock It Emily Wells 3/2/14

  2. “Woman Work”Maya Angelou Diction: The diction is very clear about what the speaker is doing. It is also very informal, as if the speaker is having a conversation with a friend. “I’ve got the children to tend/The clothes to mend” “I gotta clean up this hut” The diction is euphonious and flows easily when read aloud. “Shine on me, sunshine/Rain on me, rain”

  3. Imagery: The images in this poem are those of housework and “motherly” work. “The floor to mop/The food to shop” “The baby to dry/I got company to feed” There are also images of weather, such as “Shine on me, sunshine,” “Storm, blow me from here,” and “Sun, rain, curving sky.” There is some personification “Storm, blow me from here” giving the storm the ability to “blow” the speaker away from her duties.

  4. Details: A woman (most likely a mother) is hurrying about trying to complete various tasks around her home. She must tend to her children as well as her guests and tidy up the house while doing so. She is tired and wishes her chores would disappear or that she could be taken far away from the chores so she can relax.

  5. Language: The poem is emotional because the speaker wishes to be taken away from the duties that exhaust her. It is informal and simple because the speaker talks as if she’s having a conversation with a neighbor, friend, or her own mother. She is clear about her chores and how she wishes to “rest tonight.” The use of restatement emphasizes how much the speaker wishes to get away. “Cool my brow again” “blow me from here” “Let me float across the sky”

  6. Sentence Structure: The first stanza is very long, going along with the long list of chores the speaker must complete. The rhyme is simple to allow the reader to read quickly and easily as if the speaker was going through the list swiftly. The stanzas become shorter as the speaker imagines getting away from the chores and duties of a mother/woman. That is also where the shift occurs.

More Related