Anna Dasgupta - End Term Assignment and Self Reflective Essay
Response to Prompt No. 7 - Visual narratives based on four poems 1. Sweet Sixteen by Eunice de Souza Well, you can't say they didn't try. Mamas never mentioned menses. A nun screamed: You vulgar girl don't say brassieres say bracelets. She pinned paper sleeves onto our sleeveless dresses. The preacher thundered: Never go with a man alone Never alone and even if you're engaged only passionless kisses. At sixteen, Phoebe asked me: Can't it happen when you're in a dance hall I mean, you know what, getting preggers and all that, when you're dancing? I, sixteen, assured her you could. 2. You Fit Into Me by Margaret Atwood You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye 3. Metaphors by Sylvia Plath I'm a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! This loaf's big with its yeasty rising. Money's new-minted in t...
