Research project- Analysis....... Must include all sources and elements of poems

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Nicaela White

Dr. Rogers

ENGL 4121

8 April 2020

Research Proposal

The authors I chose are Audre Lorde and Lucille Clifton. They both have different ideas on the expression of being a woman and the things that come with being one. Examples would be menstruation, having children, how it feels being one, growing into womanhood and living as a woman in society. The poems that I will focus on are: “A Woman Speaks” and “Hanging Fire” by Audre Lorde and “Poem in Praise of Menstruation” and “The Lost Baby Poem” by Lucille Clifton. Thesis: Being a woman in a society where men have all the power can be overwhelming, and there are not enough people that understand how hard it is to be a black woman. In the poems “A Woman Speaks” () by Audre Lorde, “Hanging Fire” () by Audre Lorde, “Poem in Praise of Menstruation” by Lucille Clifton and “The Lost Baby Poem” () by Lucille Clifton, the poets use their personal experience of being a black woman by expressing the different emotions, experiences of growing into being a woman, how it feels to be a woman, and things that women have to go through. Each poet exposes that the idea of women are not as strong as men or how they do not go through painful things are debunked.