Sunday, October 26, 2008
Storni's Obsession With Female Body (especially hands)
Storni has a weird obsession with body parts that are associated with both men and women. In Alfonsina Storni's poem, "Lyrical Letter to the Other Woman," she uses certain female body parts as a way to express womanly beauty. First she talks about delicate, sweet, and slender hands. Then she mentions arms, then eyes/brows, then lips, then hands and lips (kissing hands). What is odd about these body parts is that they are associated with both men and women. She did not mention body parts that only women have. Her descriptions weren't really sexual or anything typical. She chose body parts that may be overlooked when describing a woman. Had a man been writing a similar poem, the body parts chosen to describe may have been ones that men do not have. I thought that it was interesting how the perspective changed when a woman described a beautiful woman as opposed to other poems that we have read where men describe beautiful women.
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