What is in the description? what does it talk about ?
Answer:
How do these lines evoke a sense of time and place in which this poem is set?
B) The mention of the "midnight sun" and men who "moil for gold" indicates that the poem takes place during the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon in the late nineteenth century.
Explanation:
In Yukon territory, north of the Arctic Circle, a phenomenon called the Midnight Sun occurs from June to September. The sun does not really set during summer, remaining visible even at midnight. Since the author of the poem mentions the Midnight Sun, we can safely assume he is talking about a place either north of the Arctic Circle, or south of the Antarctic Circle. How do we know, then, that this is about Yukon? Because of the phrase "moil for gold". The author is talking of the Klondike Gold Rush that took place in the Yukon territory. When news spread that gold had been found in the area, around 10,000 people migrated to Yukon to mine for the valuable metal.
They were women then
My mama’s generation
Husky of voice—stout of
Step
With fists as well as
Hands
How they battered down
Doors
And ironed
Starched white
Shirts
How they led
Armies
Headragged generals
Across mined
Fields
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Ditches
To discover books
Desks
A place for us
How they knew what
we
Must know
Without knowing a page
Of it
Themselves.
This poem focuses on black women's sacrifices to ensure their children's educations. It mainly celebrates the women of her mothers' era, who was a maid and wife to a failed sharecropper. The figurative language she uses highlights their strength and bravery they held and used, to try and make their kids' lives better so they could hold better opportunities.
