Poem ‘You love me Blanca’ and the influence of modernism and postmodernism
A well -recognized author in Latin America is Alfonsina Storni. She was born in Sala Capriasca, Switzerland in 1892 and then moved with her parents to Argentina. His death was very sad because he committed suicide, in 1938 after being buried that he had incurable cancer. The central theme in which I am going to discuss will be the roles between the woman and the man that she focuses. The poem you want Blanca was written in the twentieth century, more specifically, the year 1918 for her in her collection of the sweet damage. The literary movement to which it belongs to the elements it has is modernism and postmodernism. The elements are when Alfonsina Storni presents her feminism from part for her work with the representation of equality of the sexes in her poems. In this work, feminism will be analyzed in the poem, you want me Blanca to give more details on the tiny man to support Alfonsina Storni’s argument. Also modernism and postmodernism as a use of part to the narrative.
The tone in you want me white, is one of accusatory against man. The reason is why while the man has the expectation that the woman is "alba", of "foams" and "nacar", "it is allowed and well seen that the man is initiated in the sexual activity from a certain ageAnd that, in addition, it has many other cultural habits such as smoking, night outings, [and] frequent bars ”(Dora, 2014). For example, when he speaks of the fact that man has "purple lips" is the representation of being with so many women. "The banquet" is all the whims he has made. Which has also left "meat", a representation of the bodies of women that he has used for his own pleasure. And also being "in the black gardens of deception, dressed in red" represents how it can be so unfaithful. But Storni proposes that when the man purifies himself, and nothing more, it is how he can ask for the woman to be so pure, as an "sugar … caste … [and] of the faint perfume". Man needs to go to the "mountain" to clean his mouth, while he lives in a cabin, and takes the steps to purify himself with the use and help of nature to achieve this goal. Although the event that this is echo is minimal, it is not going to be and it is better to accept how man is, in not being able to change his ways, and concludes that one cannot be hypocritical to ask for something that he does not do the same, while waiting for women to be as the. This must let the free woman, and owner of herself, without maintaining an appearance if she does not want to be accepted by a man who will have her tightly tight in all aspects of her life, be mentally, physically, andpsychologically. With so much use of metaphors, they are taught that the roles and expectations of men and women are completely different and unfair. Because man does what he wants and can take, and be with so many women without having consequences, but the woman is layers of doing the same and following the same appearance as the man typically had, it is quickly considered the worst and dishonor untilHis own family because he brought them shame. This is nothing new and has been common in all parts of the world, nothing else in Latin America countries. That is why an answer and claim of such a strong author was very scandalous and unusual. But with a woman who speaks is enough to provoke and give value to other women who also continue in the same fight because there other women who cannot at all and depend on them. In addition, “Storni’s response is built based on the repetitions of certain phrases – ‘You love me’, ‘You intend to me’ – and the alliterations as if it were a ritornelo to produce the idea of decentration and open accusationto a repeated and reigning practice. Storni not only uninstalls with acuity and effectiveness the romantic-modernist imagery, but also, by form-resource against speech-disintegrates common places about the ‘must be’ of the woman. Storni’s is a verse that turns on himself to thin and dismantle, dismantling, the male perspective, at the same time showing a coming and going to his reference from the verse ”(Pérez, 2008).
Modernism arose as a reaction against objectivism of naturalism and realism. Modernity can be described as the aspects that manifest economic prosperity and social changes in people’s lives. But better described as a literary movement that emerged at the end of the twentieth and twenty -first century. This movement renews artistic expression. While postmodernism arises with the influence of Modernism. In poetry, feelings express in a simple way, with an ironic and sentimental tone, with the emphasis on emotions. These two literary movements are presented in the poetry of Storni very clearly. For example, the roles of the sexes was a new movement against custom in society. More specifically "" … a feminist critique may be useful in revealing not only the ways in which gender is construct and maintoined through literature and other cultural cultural, but also how the concepts of culture and nationality are Assembled and Circulated Within Society. WIDESPREAD CIRCTION CAUSES Stereotypical Gender/Culture Constructions to Be Assimilated and Normalized Within A Culture.”(Today, 2009). In addition, the poem was so well written that it is understandable and with an elegance to portray its true meaning, with a tone of sarcasm, but at the same time very sensitive.
Another poem, in the collection of irremediably, published in 1919, is the little man. This poem is another representation of feminism that comes out with the postmodernism literary movement by Alfonsina Storni. The reason is because the poem is very direct, simple, and written very clearly so that the reader, whether male or woman, can interpret it very easy and without confusion of the battles that all women suffer. The use of the cage to have the canary seriously, in this case it is the poetic voice, was used as a very shocking metaphor because it is the way Storni describes as the woman is controlled by the opposite sex. The man has the power to leave the canary, when he wants or keeping it there forever. This is leaving the woman always oppressed, without being able to have a saying about it. The title is clearly like a mockery aimed at man, and his small mentality because they cannot believe that women can get ahead without them. And the repetition of "little man" is more shocking for man when Storni says they don’t understand her and will never understand her. To the last of the poem, Storni explains that he lets her leave because she wants to escape and although she loves him for "half an hour" he does not have the right to ask for more, that this is already abusing from her.
To conclude, Alfonsina Storni uses metaphors and visual images excellently to describe her two poems more deeply, while doing so in a simple and direct way that explains the unfair expectations of women. When writing the machismo and roles of the sexes, it was very controversial, teaches its feminist attitude for the repression of women, and the repression that the patriarchal system exercises in women. But it was necessary that it was well paid because every day expectations are becoming more partners between men and women for brave people who do not fear the consequences of speaking publicly how unfair the unfairness that is suffered by all women specifically in Latin American countries,Although this problem is international. The poem was important for Latin American letters and in universal letters because if it was not for women like Alfonsina Storni, sexual stereotypes would also continue until today. Although it is still common to have unequal roles between men and women, but by the will of great voices, they gave us the right to be our own woman without fear that it can happen. We have more rights and opportunities like the man who could not achieve or have long been.
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