Today in ELA we had an all girls class. Which was awesome. We read three poems about being a teenage girl and womanhood.
In the first poem it talked about a ladies hips. I know that sounds weird but let me get to the point. Before we read this poem the author talked about how she loves her body and wants to get the message out that everyone should love themselves. In this poem the main body part she was focusing on was her hips. At first I didn't understand this but then I realized that hips represents a person. It says that "my hips are not enslaved" which means that we are not held back and that we need to be able to be free no matter what shape, size, or color. In this poem the main idea was to love yourself and this is a message that needs to be said to all girls. Sometimes well look at someone and say she is so beautiful but that girl thinks she has something bad about her too. All girls do this and I know because I do it a lot too. Girls always have the wanting to be skinner or taller because the media gives us that image of what is beautiful. The media is like a disease it spreads to every girl and gives them ideas of what is ugly and what is beautiful (credits to Beyonce). We as the new generation of women have to be that change in the world and say that this is not right because we are all unique beautiful women.
in the next poem we read about a basic teenage girl. She is talking about how she needs to learn to dance for the next party and how she might die tomorrow because she has nothing to wear. Isn't this something every teenage girl goes through. As females we go straight from being girls to being women and that is very stressful. We have a million things going on in our heads and then we always worrying about what we look like or what we wear. I mean at this very moment I'm freaking out because I have nothing to wear to go this this Chaminade meeting #girlproblems. Then at the end of every stanza the poet puts the same line "Mamas door is still shut". At first we thought maybe the mom was just ignoring her kid because she's a bad mom but then this thought came upon us. The teenage girl needs her moms advice but maybe that mom doesn't know how to give it. Or it's just something they want to avoid because it's first an uncomfortable thing to talk about and moms rather just not relive the most awkward part of their life. The title of the poem is Hanging Fire which represents us as the fire and we're hanging because we have all the problems that take over our lives. Overall these two poems tell the greater message that we need to love ourselves and be ourselves.