POETIC EXPERIENCE

THEME

SYMBOL(ISM)

TONE

IMAGERY

VOICE

METAPHOR/SIMILE

IRONY

CONFLICT

Fierceness ("Ella..")

Restless/ness ("Woman")

Confident/confidence ("Phenomenal Woman")

Pride/proud ("Learning to Love America")

Realization ("America")

"Woman" and "America" ==> journey of realization

"Phenomenal Woman" and "Ella..." ==> concept of strong women

"Phenomenal Woman" and "Woman" ==> concept of independence

"You Fit into Me" and "Woman" ==> concept of love hurts lingers

"America" and "Learning to Love America" ==> concept involved with having to get adapted to a new place; or accepting the challenge by taking what is thrown at any of us and making the best of it.

"Woman" ==> robin singing through the leaves/man not wanting to be a tree...stands for looking for support

"America" ==> tiger's tooth...stands for nurturing and painfulness

"Ella..." ==> copperheaded waitress...stands for wickedness and a snake

"Phenomenal Woman" ==> honeybees...stand for the level of attraction the men have for the woman or for women; stands for empowerment

"Learning to Love America" ==> son stands for hope and stability

"You Fit into Me" ==> fishook stands for precision; stands for pain

"Woman" ==> woman stands for maturity; stands for weakness; stands for transformation

"Woman" ==> tension between the woman and partner/man

"Learning to Love America" ==> tension between the female persona and the country

"Phenomenal Woman" ==> tension between how men see women and how women sees themselves

"Woman" ==> tension between how man feels about woman and how woman feels about herself

"You Fit into Me" ==> tension between having an open eye for things and getting someone's attention; tension between love and hate

"Woman" and "You Fit into Me" ==> We recognize that a relationship is not good for us, but we stick with it; we recognize in a relationship that things are not working, but we decide to let things be; no longer will we try to satisfy others;

"Learning to Love America" ==> we may not like the place we living in, but we end up dealing with it; we have the option to change our living situations or our feelings about our lifestyle; we may not be able to change how things are on a larger scale, we can start small (i.e., think about the benefits within our families)

"Ella..." ==> "copperheaded waitress" helps us to see that the female persona is cold (emotionally)

"Phenomenal Woman" ==> "swarm around me, a hive of honeybees" helps to understand that the female persona grabs/has the men's attention; "fashion model size" helps us to understand she is not what most men have as a picture of the ideal woman.

"America" ==> "vigor flows like tides into my blood" helps us to understand that the speaker doesn't like such a feeling.

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