Her main argument is that almost all of her attempts failed, and she still remains a woman. However, she is certain that the first attempt was an accident. Following this, she enumerates her attempts that she did it first when she was ten, and obviously, she would have done it at twenty, and now this is her third act. She also assures them that despite this botched act, she is still a woman, or at least the same woman. The speaker shows the spectators her hands, knees, skin, and bone and tells them that she is alive with her organs in working condition. These two stanzas further unwrap her thoughts about her failed suicide attempt, the poem’s main idea. Both of these stanzas show the condition of her body after her botched attempt at suicide. ![]() It seems to her a strip-tease act that she calls all the ladies and gentlemen to show her body parts after her resurrection. Meanwhile, her handlers peel her burial cloth from her feet and hands. Terming the flashing of million light filaments, she casts a glance at the crowd munching or crunching peanuts in the arena and shoving each other to see her final act. These two stanzas contribute to her main theme, which is suicide and her life on this earth which seems a very tough nut for her to crack. However, she compares herself to a cat who has stayed alive nine times which means that although she has attempted to leave this world, she is a very hard and tough lady who is ashamed of herself that she has failed to annihilate this trash after every decade. It is because she is just thirty and has the right to be happy. The speaker states that after her recovery, she again becomes a woman and to a smiling and happy woman. This stanza contributes to the main idea of suicide by stating that her every effort to die fails. She asks her enemy about her condition and assures him/her that she will be all right again. This stanza presents her image after she has recovered from her failed or botched suicide attempt. However, the flesh on her body would have the skin replaced as it got rotten in the grave, and she would be all right again. But only her breath is sour that will fade away within a day or would not persist. She is certain that they would be the nose, eye pits, and set of teeth. The speaker asks the enemy again whether he/she can spot the features of her face. ![]() These two stanzas contribute to the main idea of suicide. This is a very interesting question that she asks at the end of the fourth stanza, making the theme a bit clear that she has again come to life after committing suicide. Then she inquires her enemy whether her features terrify her or not. She then asks her enemy to peel off the skin or linen and remove this mask. Using this metaphor, she continues saying that her face is featureless, and it is like a fine cloth of Jew linen. The speaker states that her right foot is heavy, like a paperweight. The poet ends the second stanza with an enjambment that will connect it to the next stanza, but both of these stanzas have clarified the main idea, which is the suffocation in the patriarchal world and the poet’s desire to die. As she has failed in committing suicide, it seems that she has become a living miracle – a miracle of the lampshade that is as pale as the skin of some Jew removed by the Nazis. She has rather repeated the act after every ten years and has managed to repeat it. ![]() The speaker, possibly the poet herself, thinks she has again done the same act. To the same place, the same face, the same bruteįor the eyeing of my scars, there is a chargeĪnd there is a charge, a very large chargeĭo not think I underestimate your great concern.Īnd I eat men like air. Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman.Īnd pick the worms off me like sticky pearls. The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?Īnd like the cat I have nine times to die.
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