Summary Louis Bogan, Countee Cullen, And Wen s The...

Laura Lee ENGL127B Professor Axelrod 6/9/2016 Final Paper Exam Louis Bogan, Countee Cullen, and Wen I-To were all poets of the same generation that dealt with the restrictions placed upon them by society. Through Bogan’s poem â€Å"Women†, Cullen’s â€Å"Tableau†, and Wen’s â€Å"The Laundry Song†, the reader is able to get a glimpse of the social and political issues that the poet’s faced during their time and their responses to such constraints. Due to their status as a being part of a minority group, the poets have written the previously mentioned poems in order to form an identity and bring forth the issues that society has placed upon them. Through the works, the reader is able to recognize the social and political issues that result in the silence and oppression placed upon women and people of color from a heteronormative White society. Louis Bogan deals with the political issue of feminism as she criticizes women, the main target of the poem, as she writes about their shortcomings and pass ive state through irony. During her time, women were oppressed, marginalized and were ultimately silenced by their gender. Bogan criticizes the dullness and passionless state of women at that time in hope that they might change. Bogan begins to criticize by saying that women lack â€Å"wilderness† and that they are â€Å"content in the tight hot cell of their hearts† (1-4, Page 612). Although association with being wild is negative and unladylike, Bogan figuratively suggests that women have no adventure