Take Home Essay Connecting Poetry to The Handmaid’s Tale Prompt: The following poem is concerned with the of power that is similarly portrayed in THT. Read the poem and annotate carefully. Then in a well-organized essay analyze how the speaker in the poem uses imagery to reveal their attitude toward power. A Work of Artifice Marge Piercy 1 The bonsai tree 2 in the attractive pot 3 could have grown eighty feet tall 4 on the side of the mountain 5 till split by lighting. 6 But a gardener 7 carefully pruned it. 8 It is nine inches high. 9 day as he whiddles back the branches 10 the gardener croons, 11 It is your nature 12 to be small and cozy, 13 domestic and weak; 14 how lucky, little tree, 15 to have a pot to grow in. 16 With living creatures 17 one must begin very early 18 to their growth: 19 the feet, 20 the crippled brain, 21 the hair in curlers, 22 the hands you 23 love to touch.
Take Home Essay Connecting Poetry to The Handmaid’s Tale Prompt: The following poem is concerned with the of power that is similarly portrayed in THT. Read the poem and annotate carefully. Then in a well-organized essay analyze how the speaker in the poem uses imagery to reveal their attitude toward power. A Work of Artifice Marge Piercy 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 The bonsai tree in the attractive pot could have grown eighty feet tall on the side of the mountain till split by lighting. But a gardener carefully pruned it. It is nine inches high. day as he whiddles back the branches the gardener croons, It is your nature to be small and cozy, domestic and weak; how lucky, little tree, to have a pot to grow in. With living creatures one must begin very early to their growth: the feet, the crippled brain, the hair in curlers, the hands you love to touch.
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