Poety Anaylisis

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Tone

The tone of the Adrienne Rich 's poem Women is rather somber . What is meant by this is that the narrator of the poem - the four sister , is observing her family (but not her real family because this poem reads as an allusion to the three fates of Greek mythology who sew or even the three weird sisters in Shakespeare 's MacBeth ) and telling the reader details of what the woman is sewing . Since the narrator is part

of the family of the observed the reader may make a conjecture that there is love in the speaker 's voice for these women . Indeed there seems to be a sadness for the first two sisters since they are trying to sew together what is broken but there is a satisfaction for the third sister who is not sewing her broken stockings but gazing out to see

Metaphor

The metaphor of the poem has to do with fate . Indeed as mentioned before the three sisters are the three fates who sew in Greek mythology . One sews the past , the other the present and the third sews the future . If then the third sister is supposed to sewing the future but in Rich 's poem she is gazing far out to sea at the magma (for the sisters are sitting on obsidian and magma often erupts in the ocean ) then the future fate of the narration tells of a destruction . However since...