Women

Women

Kyle Nelson
English III Honors
Burnett P-8
26 October 2010
The Mirror Boy- stares back at you
How would you feel to be a person who knows too much yet has never felt the burn. Spackman uses phrases like “never felt the burn (3), never have been kissed (6), cries with careful countenance (7) and suffer and endure” (15) to symbolize how women were compared to men in Early America. Some examples of how Spackman compares women to men are how they have “never felt the burn” which means that they had never experienced having the right to vote or having the ability to own property and when Spackman says to “suffer and endure” (15) she is talking about when the women were going through intense situations trying to earn the equality of men in America. In Brigid Spackman’s poem “The Mirror Girl- stares back at me” Spackman expresses the feeling of these phrases
Women in America did not have the right to vote until 1920 with the passing of the 19th amendment. There were hundreds of years where women were unequal to men and did not have any rights whatsoever in America. Another example in Spackman’s poem of how women were unequal was when she said “But never have been kissed” (6), she means that women have tried to get equal rights as men but have never gotten these rights. These are great examples of the long and painful women’s rights movement which lasted for many years when a bunch of different famous women fought very hard for the rights that every woman deserves.
During the women’s rights movement of the early 1900’s was a very hard and intense time for the women of America and all those fighting for the women to receive equal rights to men. In Spackman’s poem she says “to fight and endure” (15) is an example of the pain and fighting the women in the early 1900’s had to go through to earn their equal rights. Spackman also says that they do not “pain or ache”(14) which means that even though they had to fight and endure in...