Question

Why was Alfonsina Storni's work controversial to some people in literary circles?

Answer 1

Because her poems had some powerful feminist meanings, which gave women power and motivation, during a time were women were treated differnet than today. 

Answer 2

Answer:

Because she las the firs women that had success in literature in Argentina, she wrote about gender roles, she was feminist, she hay a strong politic opinion, and she wrote erotic poems.

Explanation:

Before Alfonsina, no women had any success in Argentinean literature. She wrote a lot of poems and plays, but also politic essays. Her prose is feminist and, according to critics, has an originality that changed the meaning of Latin American lyrics.

Before Alfonsina, no women had any success in Argentinean literature. She wrote a lot of poems and plays, but also politic essays. Her prose is feminist and, according to critics, has an originality that changed the meaning of Latin American lyrics. In the beginning of her carreer she wrote a lot of romantic pieces, that dealed with the subject from an erotic and sensual point of view. Usually we can see in those pieces esentment towards the male figure. Then she ignores eroticism and touches the issue from a more abstract and reflective point of view. Literary criticism says her work is first late-Romantic, and then avant-garde features and resources.

Before Alfonsina, no women had any success in Argentinean literature. She wrote a lot of poems and plays, but also politic essays. Her prose is feminist and, according to critics, has an originality that changed the meaning of Latin American lyrics. In the beginning of her carreer she wrote a lot of romantic pieces, that dealed with the subject from an erotic and sensual point of view. Usually we can see in those pieces esentment towards the male figure. Then she ignores eroticism and touches the issue from a more abstract and reflective point of view. Literary criticism says her work is first late-Romantic, and then avant-garde features and resources. On her compositions is also reflected the illness she suffered for a large part of his life and shows how she is waiting for the end point of his life, expressing her pain, fear and other demotivational feelings.