![]() ![]() It is this first description, that takes up the majority of the first stanza, that will be longed for, and purposefully forgotten in the second stanza. The poet begins this piece by having her speaker describe one state in which a woman can exist. In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home. In the final lines of this piece, the cage in which the woman is trapped is described as being a “shelter.” This “shelter,” meant to keep a woman from falling to any harm, is the structure that harms her the most.Īnalysis of The Heart of a Woman Stanza One This confinement seems absurd and incomprehensible to the woman who was just living in so much freedom. The bird is once more imprisoned in an “alien cage” that is meant to keep it safe. In the second stanza, the day has ended and the woman is forced back into the reality of her world. She flies over valleys and turrets and travels through all the feelings that call her home. A woman’s heart, described as a softly flying bird, travels over all the varying landscapes of the world below. The poems begins with the speaker describing how at dawn a woman’s heart is able to fly forth from her home like a “lone bird.” This is the only way that a woman is able to experience, even for a time, true freedom. ‘ The Heart of a Woman‘ by Georgia Douglas Johnson describes the freedom for which women yearn and the shelters in which they are imprisoned. ![]()
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