Part one of term paper
ifferent Worlds In this essay I am going to compare and contrast the speakers and the stories of “Homage to my Hips” and “Her Kind”. The speakers in this stories have very different attitudes, and approaches in telling their story about the same topic. While talking about the oppression of women, both Lucille Clifton a ...

Part two of term paper
... clear, individualistic tone that makes the poems of these two writers differ in many ways. The speaker in “Homage to my Hips” carries a very proud and self-confident attitude. The best example of this would be when the speaker says, “These hips are mighty hips. These hips are magic hips. I have known them to put a spell on a man and spin him like a top!”(Pg705). That line is so powerful, it portrays the image that she thinks that bug women are better than men. The speake ...