Part one of term paper
In the poem “,” Annette Von Droste-Hülshoff uses imagery and references to God to express the coming of the end of the year. The poem, however, seems to reflect the impending freedom of women from a patriarchal society. This poem’s imagery and outside references suggest that it is in fact a plea for the end of the sufferi ...

Part two of term paper
... of this poem, “The year at its turn” (Droste-Hulshoff, 1). Throughout this poem, she uses the year to represent a period of time that is coming to an end. Referring to the introduction in the World Reader, Droste-Hulshoff was a woman “yearning for the freedom to be herself” (Caws, 2002). This forces the reader to consider that she is using the time period of the year as the time of women’s oppression. She feels that the time of the oppression is coming to an end. & ...