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Eve's Apology In Defense Of Woman Essay

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To begin with, the meaning of literature to me is way for the author to express a fictional or non-fictional story. Lyric poetry are a type of poem that express emotional feelings in the present tense. The majority of the time lyric poems rhyme but they are not required to. The Lyric poem “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women” written by Aemilia Lanyer is a beautiful lyrical poem that demonstrates what every lyrical poem should include. All lyric poems depend on some type of meters(the rhythm of the poem) based on the number of syllables used or on the stress. There are six different types of meters, lambic, trochiac, pyrrhic, anapestic, dactalic and spondiac, but the in lyric poetry trochiac is the most used meter. Besides the meter there are three things that play a huge part in the writing of lyric poetry which is the use of symbolism, imagery and metaphors.

First, symbolism is a figure of speech that an author uses when he/she wants to create a certain emotion or moon in a work of literature. Symbolism is the use …show more content…

Another way to think of a metaphor is a comparison between two contradictory objects that is made based on a characteristic they both share. In lines 807-808 in the poem “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women”, Lanyer wrote “Yet Men will boast of Knowledge, which he took From Eve's fair hand, as from a learned Book.” she was trying to get the reader to understand that even though man was given knowledge from a god he still believed Eve over him. Comparing knowledge and books was a great comparison in the fact that it is assumed that if a book says it, it is true. It interpreted that man is weak to the woman in terms of knowledge, because Adam knew the words of god yet chose to believe her over a god which to a good would be a stupid mistake to

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