The Poem, Woman, by Nikki Giovanni Essay -- Poetry Analysis

The poem Wo patch, written by Nikki Giovanni, uses several metaphors to describe the journey of a wo soldiery and what she feels the man should do only if will not do. She describes in many different ways how she wants support from the man, but he is unwilling to guard it. In the first stanza, she starts the poem with the woman world a simple, insignificant thing. She wanted to be a blade of git amid the fields (lines 1-2). Grass grows under your feet. Blades of grass are plentiful and ordinary. She just wanted to be just identical every other woman. But he wouldnt agree to be her dandelion (line 3-4). A dandelion is a deeply rooted weed. If it is pulled up by the roots, one has to get every single root up or the dandelion will grow back. This signifies that the woman wanted the man to be the solace in her life history. In the second stanza, the woman in the poem is now referring to herself as a robin. She wanted to be a robin singing through the leaves (lines 5-6). Robins mo stly stay in their throw climate during the winter, and feed off of the berries in the manoeuvre. When spring is coming the robin starts to sing. But he refused to be her tree (lines 7-8). She wanted the support when she needed, but she also wanted the freedom to fly away when she needed to. The tree signifies structure and stability. She needed that stability, but he did not want to give it. In the third stanza, the woman has progressed into a wanderer. She spun herself into a web and sounding for a fanny to rest turned to him but he stood orderly declining to be her corner (lines 10-14). Spiders are normally very independent by nature. However a spiders most desired place for a web would be a corner. A corner allows the spider a safe haven and many exit routs to esc... ...endent, aggressive, and predatory. Then she tried and true to be a book, a great resource. In her final endeavor to get a response from him, she turned herself into a bulb, his vital life source. However she was a woman the whole time. The author could have been using metaphors to show what she thought were the characteristics of men and women. The poem more likely shows the increase of women over time to find their place in society and the mans struggle to deal with it. The woman in the poem was urgently trying to find her place of significance. She learned in the end, that being who she was in other peoples eyes was less important than being who she was in her own eyes. Work Cited Giovanni, Nikki. Woman. Literature An Introduction to interlingual rendition and Writing.7th ed. Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs. Upper Saddle River, N.J. Prentice Hall, 2004. 1098.