Blog Assignment #2: due by 10/13

For this post, choose one of the following and explain, using a few quotes/ideas from the chapter on feminist criticism, how you would analyze it through the lens of feminist criticism. You should also provide a brief summary and your reaction to the text. (These are short; your readings should be very focused in the sense that you deal specifically with multiple lines of the poems.)

Choices:

Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl", a stream-of-consciousness narrative in 2nd person recounting the many "rules" a girl of Kincaid's ethnic/racial identity must follow

Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus", a self-confessional poem in which Plath recounts several suicide attempts and her "coming back" from them (she did eventually commit suicide, as did her son, at 47 . . . as did the woman with whom Plath's celebrated poet husband Ted Hughes had an affair and married after Plath's death. An interesting family, to say the least). 

Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors", a short poem that highlights pregnancy in an unexpected way

Anne Sexton's "Cinderella", a rather ironic retelling of the classic Cinderella tale.

Anne Sexton's "Her Kind", which examines stereotypes of women