Monday, April 2, 2012

#22 Week 11 "Homage to my hips" by Lucille Clifton pg.636


Summary

This poem talks about hips, but just the narrator’s hips and not hips in general. The narrator describes the size of her hips and the room needed for them to get around. The narrator pokes fun at thinner hips calling the places those hips fit “petty”. She also describes her hips as having a mind of their own, free to roam where they please. The narrator clearly loves her assets and says that they can attract men from time to time, and put men under a sort of spell or trance.   

Reader Response      

Laugh, out, loud! Ha ha, this was a funny poem! I loved it; it was short, sweet and simple.  I liked how it had such a girl power attitude to it. I also enjoyed how it encouraged women to love their bodies no matter what. I also liked that it mentioned that having large assets, in this case hips, can attract men so easily. I think it was also pretty cool how in the mist of describing her hips the narrator mentions that they had “never been enslaved” telling her readers of her decent. Really good poem! Also makes the cut of one of my new favorites.

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