I have to say that this is a really brilliant poem, Lucille Clifton is a brilliant writer. The poem is for sons, (men), but talking about women things. It is not confusing at all, imagine this, a men saying that we, women, are angry because we are in "our days". And if it was the other way around? Would they want some respect about that? This is the main idea of this great poem, to make men mor conscious about the life of a woman, to understand another human being that doesn't have the same necessities as them, but that it is still a human being that may suffer even more than men. They say they are the "strong sex", but if...
i wish them a strange town
I'd really like to know what are they going to do, maybe women are the "strong sex", because of the things we have to suffer day by day, the lack of respect of some men to us, the lack of understanding, the pressure that men put us under to do things we don't want to, etc...
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