Overhead In County Slogi and Woman Work :: Woman Work Maya Angelou

Woman Work by Maya Angelou and Overheard in County Sigo by Gillian Clarke In this essay I am going to discuss two poems. Woman Work written by Maya Angelou, is about a woman who works all the time and unspoiled wants to rest. The second poem is called overheard in County Sigo written by Gillian Clarke which is about a married woman having a conversation with her friend about her life and tone back at what her ambitions were.Woman Work is a regular 5 stanza, rhyming poem, It is set in southern USA. We know this because of the way she talkes The cane to be cut Cane is grown in southern USA, I gotta blank up this hut Hut is what she calles her house And the cotton to Pick cotton overly grows in USA. Its about this womanwhos either single or doesnt get any help from her partener/husband. Shes always doing something, looking after the children - Ive got the children to tend, housework - I gotta clean up this hut, shopping - The food to shop or farmwork, - The cane to be cut, And the c otton to pick.Overheard in County Sligo is another regular 5 stanza, rhyming poem. It is set in Ireland. It is about a married woman who married a man from county Roscommon and shes talking about what her ambitions were - I had thaught to work on the Abbey Stage or have my name in a book. It doesnt sound like shes happy plainly she wont leave - the freedoms thither for the taking but she never went.There are several themes in Woman work, one of them being Work. We can see this in the first stanza . She lists all the things shes got to do. some other theme being lonleiness. We can see this by the fact that she only mentions her children there, she may want someone to talk to her or help her with all her work. chiefly she just wants a rest.The theme in Overheard in county Sligo is basically life, its all about a woman having a conversation with a friend or someone she knows and someone else just happend to be listening. The housewife is telling her friend about herself, and the fac t that she wanted to leave her life but she never did - the freedoms there for the takingIn Woman Work the poet Maya Angelou has made it so the reader can see a womandoing all this work in the readers head, and how life must(prenominal) have been like for her.