Discussing Poetry

What Woman Deserve

     Women deserve better is the powerful message delivered by Sonya Renee in her poem What Women Deserve. She speaks about how we are said to be a feminist country and that everybody has rights, when there is still a lot of discrimination against woman. The theme is clear in that society says woman's rights are being heard and met, when in reality they usually aren't. "With no chance of getting a better job, because you can't have infants at the university" is one of the many realistic quotes of Renee about how hard it is for teen mothers. The poem sets a strong mood of empowerment and it leaves you wanting things to be better for women. What I especially liked about this poem is the way she describes everything. Sonya Renee speaks with a strong sense of reality and everything is in a modern, relatable manner that reaches out to people. 

Sierra DeMulder

     "Did you put your own heart in the freezer next to the thought of me?" Sierra DeMulder asks the son she hypothetically speaks to and speaks about in the unnamed poem she preformed at the national poetry slam. She is constantly asking him and herself questions of what she did for him to become this. "Did [she] teacher [him] to pluck families apart like flower petals?" Questioning every aspect that she did while raising him to see what she did that he would grow up to be a murder. The strange mood and concept of the poem is what I find so exciting about it. It is unlike any other poem that I have come across. DeMulder sets the theme of the poem when she asks if  "will be forgiven for the sins [she] did not commit, but created." The theme is that is it just the way her son is or is there anything she could have possibly done that would cause him to be the way he is. What I enjoy about this poem is the unusual thrill I get with each line she reads.

If I Should Have a Daughter

Sarah Kay speaks a creative and original list of what she would do as a mother in the poem If I Should Have a Daughter. She comes up countless analogy's of how she's going to guide her daughter through the rough times of growing up. Kay says she will prepare for her first heartbreak by always keeping rain boots and chocolate around "because there is no heartbreak that chocolate cant fix." There is a few present themes throughout the poem but the main one being that you will always have some one there for you no matter what, which is why Kay says "instead of mom she's going to call [her] point B." She says this so her daughter can always find her way back. What I like about the poem is how Kay discusses what she will do to help her grow up and how she will be there for her daughter no matter what. The mood is quite compassionate because she makes us all feel like that's what were going to do and puts our mothers in a new light. Sarah Kay's detail of exactly what she will do is enticing and relatable.