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Welcome to my weekly dose of blog analysis for Modern American Literature
Imagine living in the days where women and other minorities were silenced. Or is that today? 2019? We still see minorities being silenced. However, we can see how much more difficult it was for these minorities to have a voice back in the 20th century, especially post-war.
Diving Into the Wreck shines a light on these silenced writers. We all now know what the cannon is. It is an aspect of “great books.” But what about these books are “great?” Oh, that’s right, white men. White men such as, Hemingway, Shakespeare, Twain, and Fitzgerald. These men had great influence on literature. These men wrote legendary and iconic books and novels. They help power within their era of literature. Hence why they are apart of the ‘cannon’. In today’s society, I believe we can come up with a modern literary canon that these feminist writers fought for. Women have a big impact in today’s society, and it is hard to believe how belittled their literature, along with other minorities, became. Our author of Diving Into the Wreck, Adrienne Rich brings light and awareness to background literature. Starting off her poem, she talks about the ‘book of myths.’ We know that the book of myths is writings from western civilization. The book of myths leads back into the literary canon. I won’t go back into a tangent on the canon, but again, this poem shows us the effects of the cannon. In the sense of diving, Rich is diving into the literary past. The wreck is a metaphor for lost writers (minority writers, non canon writers). Therefore, Rich is digging herself deep into the literary past. Rich uses a great use of word play. She draws a picture in the readers mind of this body of water being the literary past. I think Rich made awareness to the past and the canon that we as readers need to learn.
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