markslindapastan

The entirety of this poem functions as an extended metaphor, relating receiving grades, checklists, and pass/fail remarks to society's tendency to judge. This ...

This poem can symbolize the transition from dependency to independent. Despite her best, she's been put into standards by her family.

“Marks” is a poem by Linda Pastan in the mid 1970s about a young wife and mother. It describes her treatment by her husband and children, ending with a ...

Marks - Linda Pastan. My husband gives me an A for last night's supper, an incomplete for my ironing, a B plus in bed. My son says I am average, an average ...

“Marks” by Linda Pastan (1978). My husband gives me an A for last night's supper, an incomplete for my ironing, a B plus in bed. My son says I am average, an ...

Linda's work often focused on the ordinary moments of life: domestic activities, familial relationships, aging, fear, loss…and dogs, which she loved.

In her feminist poem Marks, Linda Pastan highlights the power a husband has over his wife as he subjects her to instrumentality, fungibility, and reduction to ...

2022年5月7日 — 這位名為Linda Pastan 的美國詩人於1978年寫了‹‹Marks››；顧名思意就是分數。 近代詩和古詩相比，Pastan的用字和詩中的內容相對於早前的作品來說較淺 ...

In the short poem “Marks” my Linda Pastan, you are given an insight on the life of a wife who is also a mother of two. The setting of the story takes place.

My husband gives me an A for last night's supper, an incomplete for my ironing, a B plus in bed. My son says I am average, an average mother, but if