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 ...
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.
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...