Passion in Ai's poetry
Passion in Ai’s Poetry
Ai uses both sexes as speakers in her poems. In Twenty-year
Marriage there is a female speaker who is speaking to her
husband through her body movements. It is a man conveying
thoughts to the mother of his dead child in Abortion. Both poems
are very moving and believable. They present themselves as
spoken by a particular character who has let the reader into
their souls. The wife of twenty …
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…but also of the other character. Through her words, Ai is able
to bring her characters to life. “These voices are sharp and
clear, and they resonate not because they shock, but because they
and the language they speak are so familiar” (Quashie 16)
Perhaps it is the familiarity of the characters situations that
brings the poems to life. The speakers passion is able to be
conveyed so realistically thanks to Ai’s phraseology.
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