Read the poem and analyze its details. You may include your personal insights and you may refer to other literary works, but the focus should be on the ideas and experiences as suggested by Julia Alvarez. Include literary elements in your analysis. Refer back to the poem and cite properly using MLA style.
1 Who says a woman’s work isn’t art?
2 She’d challenge as she scrubbed the bathroom tiles.
3 Keep house as if the address were your heart.
4 We’d clean the whole upstairs before we’d start
5 downstairs. I’d sigh, hearing my friends outside.
6 Doing her woman’s work was a hard art.
7 To practice when the summer sun would bar
8 the floor I swept till see was satisfied.
9 She kept me prisoner in her housebound heart.
10 She’s shine the tines of forks, the wheels of carts,
11 cut lacy lattices for all her pies
12 Her woman’s work was nothing less than art.
13 And I, her masterpiece since I was smart,
14 was primed, praised, polished, scolded and advised
15 to keep a house much better than my heart.
16 I did not want to be her counterpart!
17 I struck out… but became my mother’s child:
18 a woman working at home on her art,
19 housekeeping paper as if it were her heart,
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