Checkpoint 5
a. Love Poems by Women, Wendy Mulford, Introduction.
b. 7-10 Bullet points:
- poems have no limits
- traditionaly written by men,
- women have been used as inspirations
- good old love poems were mostly written by heterosexuals poets in Japan and China
- there is always a lover and the beloved
- most good female love poems were written by homosexuals.
- love is a mystery that everyone finds on its own
- our own personal view of poems is related to culture, experiences, traditions, economics, and politics.
In this book, Wendy Mulford explains that love poems are hard to decifer but everyone has their own opinion about them depending on ther lives. One reason that supports this main idea is that her book contains an anthology of love poems written by women and their background information. Another example that supports this main idea is that she believes ost of the best written poems by women were for the same sex or a beloved. Finally, the author gives the fact that many dont know poems by women because men often used their work as theirs or used them as muses to come up with creative ideas for literature to support the main idea.
These ideas are similar to the time of the slaved because their owners made them work and always took credit for their astonishing pieces of art.
you did a good job expressing what are the characteristics of love poems. I never knew that most female poems were writen by homosexuals.
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