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 near a woman who works entirely the time and just 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 looking 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 dash she talkes The cane to be cut Cane is grown in southern USA, I gotta clean up this hut Hut is what she calles her house And the cotton to crack cotton also grows in USA. Its about this womanwhos either single or doesnt get any help oneself 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 cu t, And the cotton to pick.Overheard in County Sligo is another(prenominal) 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 exclusively she wont leave - the freedoms there 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 set-back stanza . She lists all the things shes got to do. Another 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. Mainly 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 a bout herself, and the fact 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 have been like for her.