What are the major technical hallmarks of the genre present in the work?
Read Anorexic by Eavan Boland Homage to My Hips by Lucille Clifton), and My Mistress Eyes by William Shakespeare Analyze these poems in terms of societal (both past and current) expectations of youth and beauty. Are these things given undue or unfair emphasis? Also consider culture’s obsessions with perfection and athleticism. How are these things shown in these poems? Are […]