Discussion question | Women Literacy

The texts for this week show women in relationship with husbands, daughters, lovers, friends.
READINGs:  selection from The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women:

Choose one:

• Hisaye Yamamoto: “Seventeen Syllables” (834–843)
• Maxine W. Kumin: “Making the Jam without You” (913), “The Envelope” (915); “How It Is” (915), “Skinnydipping with William Wordsworth” (916-917), “Women and Horses” (917), “Sonnet in So Many Words” (918)
• identify a relationship being described in one of these texts and explain how aesthetic elements as imagery, allusion, distinctive word choice, or metaphor) reinforce the nature of that relationship.
  Respond in a 250-350 word MLA format.