Open AccessAudre Lorde's Who Said It Was Simple Characterized as a Confessional Mode
Author(s) -
Issa Radhi Hummadi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mağallaẗ kulliyyaẗ al-luġāt
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2520-3517
pISSN - 2074-9279
DOI - 10.36586/jcl.2.2020.0.42.0257
Subject(s) - confessional , human sexuality , poetry , personality , literature , gender studies , art , psychoanalysis , psychology , sociology , political science , law , politics
The research explores the confessional aspect in Audre Lorde's poem" Who Said It Was Simple ". Lorde depicts her personality under the stress of race, sex and sexuality. She discloses her own bitter experience concerning racism, sexism and sexuality in her poem to revive the retrospective truth of the Afro-Americans' life in the USA. This publicly manifestation of her personality and tribulation throughthe language ofpoetry has been regarded as the hallmark of confessional poetry.