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    A Study Guide for Audre Lorde's "What My Child Learns of the Sea"
    A Study Guide for Audre Lorde's "What My Child Learns of the Sea"
    A Study Guide for Audre Lorde's "What My Child Learns of the Sea"
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    A Study Guide for Audre Lorde's "What My Child Learns of the Sea"

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    A Study Guide for Audre Lorde's "What My Child Learns of the Sea," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781535842679
    A Study Guide for Audre Lorde's "What My Child Learns of the Sea"

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      A Study Guide for Audre Lorde's "What My Child Learns of the Sea" - Gale

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      What My Child Learns of the Sea

      Audre Lorde

      1963

      Introduction

      When Audre Lorde wrote What My Child Learns of the Sea in her daughter Elizabeth’s first year of life, she was struggling to come to terms with her identity. The year of the poem’s creation, 1963, found Lorde in her first and only marriage, a young mother, writing poetry while also working as a librarian. The United States at the time was in the throes of an energetic and contested civil rights reform movement during the final year of President John F. Kennedy’s administration, just before its violent end. Set within the context of the times, What My Child Learns of the Sea reflects the anxiety and upheaval in Lorde’s personal life. In this poem, Lorde explores the responsibility, legacy, and limitations she felt as a mother and daughter. Avoiding specific allusions to historical events, Lorde focused her imagery on the primal cycles of nature. The language of seasons, including manifestations of growth and decay, give the poem a resilience that transcends the time and place of its creation and ensures its continued relevance and thoughtfulness as an exploration of mother-daughter and parent-child

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