Rebelious

When people go against an authority or tradition it is called rebellious.  In Lucille Clifton's "Homage To My Hips," and William Carlos William's "This Is Just To Say," both describe rebelling.  Clifton describes African-American women's hip.  Within the lines she was also describing how she wanted to rebel against being a slave.  When the speaker says "These hips are free hips. They don't like to be held back. These hips have never been enslaved" (193), they were referring to being free and how the hips were not enslaved, but they were.  On the other hand, in William's poem, he describes a plum, but every word in that poem has a deeper meaning.  The speaker says "Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold" (345). This is very sarcastic and shows that they did not really want to say sorry, but they did. They both rebel from two different perspectives.     






Clifton, Lucille. "Homage To My Hips." Literature: An Introduction. 6th ed. Ed. X. J. Kennedy. NY: Longman, 2008. 193. Print.

Williams, William Carlos. "This Is Just To Say." Literature: An Introduction. 6th ed. Ed. X. J. Kennedy. NY: Longman, 2008. 345. Print.