Woman

Woman Meaning of “Woman” The poem “Woman” was written by Nikki Giovanni in 1978. Women in the 70’s had no rights. What made it worse for Nikki Giovanni was that not only was she a woman but a black woman. Blacks in the 70’s were too striving to gain their rights as well. In Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Woman” the poet reveals the human desire through the characters in the poem, through the use of metaphors and poetry structure style. In this essay you will see how two characters are metaphorically assimilated and how the over all structure of the role in its true meaning. The female character in the poem uses metaphors to express her feelings. “She wanted to be a blade of grass” means that she wants to be like everyone else. Grass is everywhere and she wants to be equal to everyone else. “She wanted to be a robin singing”, has two meanings behind it. The robin is a small animal, but it is beautiful and different. The singing of the bird in the poem is the woman’s struggle for the right to speak freely. When “she poem, woman, support, nikki, change, through, style, stand, neutral, metaphors, meaning, man, life, knowledge, grass, giovanni, bulb, asked, written, web, wanted, two, structure, structural, singing, seed, robin, rights, refusing, ready, over, metaphorically, herself, grow