Today's average reader does not usually stop to ponder the gender of an author and what impact a male or female hand may have on a body of literature. However, if analyzed closely, any given text may expose a distinct structural element ... off as an by-product of one's sex. Nevertheless, women's literature tends to lend a much more prominent distinction of gender through the structure of poetry. Female writers such as Gertrude Stein, Dorothy Parker, and Elizabeth Bowen utilize a poetic license in a gallivant manner to illustrate a story as it unfolds to them ... not do it, he did not ever th...

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... contribution. / When with your list of loves you over come her, / for Heaven's sake keep this one from her." (Davidson 770) Davidson explains that in this poem "humor constitutes the female speaker's first level of resistance to her lover attempt the impose upon her a tyranny of privacy" (Davidson 769). In her writings Parker brought forth struggles of the sexes and classes ... of his desire and the subject of the poetry. In her poetry Parker "undercuts" this conventional position of love by her irony and therefore breaks the tradition of male and female. In this way she changes the per...

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... so through their writings. Parker angrily pointed out that she hoped to meet a man who did not desire to express his feelings concerning other women in the presence of his female friend. She would indirectly frame men as bring unsympathetic and uncompassionate towards women. She made a stand for all the other flappers and said she would no longer tolerate the inconsiderate ... ...

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... a part of time they share" (19); to remind her of the urgency of his love, and entice her to forget her modesty and allow "herself to be desired" (14). The female receiver uses the symbolic rose to make the point that if this gentleman was going to make an effort, he should have made it for something more worth her time ... ...

• Word Count: 719
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• Grade Level: High School