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Asserts that most
“literature”
throughout time has
been written by men,
for men.
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Examines the way
that the female
consciousness is
depicted by both male
and female writers.
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4 Basic Principles of Feminist
Criticism:
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1. Western civilization is patriarchal.
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2. The concepts of gender are mainly cultural ideas created
by patriarchal societies
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3. Patriarchal ideals pervade literature
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4. Most “literature” through time has been
gender-biased.
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Poetry is the artistic expression of an idea in a
rhythmical pattern. It stirs the emotion and
stimulates the mind through the following:
• https://literarydevices.net/tone
THEME
• is defined as a main idea or an underlying meaning of
a literary work that may be stated directly or
indirectly.
• Major and minor themes are two types of themes
that appear in literary works. A major theme is an
idea that a writer repeats in his work, making it the
most significant idea in a literary work. A minor
theme, on the other hand, refers to an idea that
appears in a work briefly and gives way to another
minor theme.
• https://literarydevices.net/theme/
TO THE MAN I MARRIED
To the Man I Married
Angela Manalang-Gloria
I
You are my earth and all the earth implies:
The gravity that ballasts me in space,
The air I breathe, the land that stills my cries
For food and shelter against devouring days.
You are the earth whose orbit marks my way
And sets my north and south, my east and west,
You are the final, elemented clay
The driven heart must turn to for its rest.
If in your arms that hold me now so near
I lift my keening thoughts to Helicon
As trees long rooted to the earth uprear
Their quickening leaves and flowers to
the sun,
You who are earth, O never doubt that I
Need you no less because I need the sky!
I can not love you with a love
That outcompares the boundless sea,
For that were false, as no such love
And no such ocean can ever be.
But I can love you with a love
As finite as the wave that dies
And dying holds from crest to crest
The blue of everlasting skies.