Choose either Lorde or Winterson for this assignment. (See below for genre explanations.)
How does one of this author’s poems or short stories on our reading list for this week connect to one important idea expressed in her nonfiction essay? Does the literary text (poem or short story) embody that idea fully, or do you see a divergence? Which text argues more strongly for that idea? Explain.
Make sure to choose brief passages (phrases or partial sentences) to use as evidence from both texts for your interpretation as you answer the questions. Remember, you are choosing one author and using her nonfiction essay paired with one of her literary texts.
Genres:
Audre Lorde:
“Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” (nonfiction essay)
“Now that I am Forever with Child” (poem)
“Love Poem” (poem)
Jeanette Winterson:
“The Semiotics of Sex” (nonfiction essay)
“Goldrush Girl” (short story)
You need someone to take your entire online class, Fix My GPA is here for you.
Suggestions
- Assume that your audience has read the texts, and avoid summary.
- Make sure to answer all prompt questions directly in your claim in the first paragraph of your essay.
- Use evidence to support your argument as mentioned in the assignment, and avoid block quotations.
- You need someone to take your entire online class, Fix My GPA is here for you.
- Avoid the five-paragraph essay structure. Structure your response organically from the prompt and from your claim. Avoid universalisms, generalizations, and needless repetition, especially in your introductory and concluding sentences.
Format: 500 words, MLA style
ENG 2230 Connections Identification 5 Answer
Women and Power
In her essay Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power Audre Lorde argues that “there are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise” (Lorde). In her poem, Now That I Am Forever with Child Audre Lorde points the power of a woman in bringing life. She writes;
I thought____now her hands
are formed____her hair
has started to curl
now her teeth are done
now she sneezes.
This brings her idea of erotic power to reality with the role of women as a mother. For women to realize that giving life is power, in her essay, Lorde argues that women must understand they are empowered………..
