Elements of Poetry: Order for Mask Essay

Speaker The Speaker is woman portraying three different roles (SISTER, DAUGHTER and LOVER) Audience The maker of the masks is the audience.Content The poem is all(prenominal) about a woman who is playing three roles. She shapes her behavior, action and personality in accordance to the require of the work force in her life. In our opinion this degrades the perspective of the woman as it reduces her whole being to mere instruments that satisfies and pleases mens needs and wants. Furthermore, this conclusion is compensated by the other fact that poem is toilsome to imply. It also shows that the woman, through her ability to make the men in her life see and believe what she wants them to, in other words she can manipulate what she wants the men in her life to believe what she is through that mask. Theme We believe that the main idea of the story is about women in the society. Its about what women do to satisfy the needs of the people around them.Shape and Form The poem is a free vers e. It does not follow a pattern. Mood or sprightliness In each role she partakes it has a different mood. When she played the role of a sister she felt anger that is why she doesnt want to be like him. When she was playing the role of a daughter her mood is calm or somewhat pure to match the things that her father wants her to be pure, innocent and chaste, lede him to believe that she is the perfect daughter. Lastly when she is portraying the role of a lover her mood is a mixture of hatred and love, petulance and disgust because her lover had increase his hand on her that left a mark so thats where the hatred and disgust comes from yet she is still in love and pure of passion with that man because she still wants to be beautiful and presentable in his presence.Imagery The poet wants us to imagine the roles that women play in our everyday life and what they to satisfy our needs and wants. Diction The poet chose to express the woman identity by describing her when she wears the m asks in the presence of each man in her life. Figurative Language Allusion