Social Commentary In Phenomenal Woman By Maya Angelou

Introduction

This Paper amis to invistigate the social commentaries (sex and gender). To explain that I choose to analayise and disscuse a poem called "phenomenal women"by Maya Angelou in 1978.This paper aims to investigate the feminism movement through poetry. To contextualizes the poem, two approaches will be used,” the feminism approach “and “the language variation and the social factors”.

Theme:

This poem is about a woman who expresses her femininity and how she is attractive by her features. The speaker explains what makes her so irresistible and insatiable by men and she always concludes her explanation with her being simply a woman.´In the poem “Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou, the theme of women empowerment is expressed more effectively compared to ordinary pieces of writing

The poem is frightful with feminist theme. The poet tries to explore male and female gender identities. Like when she companies the men who” swarm” around to” a hive of honey beer”. Feminism moving the stereotyped woman from marginality to centrality. It is not just a movement to defend the women over the man. It is also to liberate both man and woman. It liberates man through making his thought out the box and woman as equal individual rather than a dolls who stay at home. It against the culture that make the woman feel below man.” Feminist movement did not only focus on the opposition between man and woman, but also the changes od rights and identity”. When women achieved a progress in calling for their rights and began to emerge as great writers, they wrote poetry according a male 's point of view like Virginia Wolf. There is no one moment when the feminist poetry movement began; rather, women wrote about their experiences and entered into a dialogue with society over many years before the 1960s. Feminist poetry was influenced by social change, but also by poets such as Emily