a very traditional idea of these roles that men are overt and aggressive and women are convert and emotional. This is done by first focusing on the girl’s life which has been wonderful until one particular thing happens suddenly in ‘First Ice. ’ While Voznesensky construsts men in stereotypical serious and violent way. Both poets position the reader to feel gender is complicated and intricate.Voznesensky creates a sad mood where all the things gets frozen when some unhappy things suddenly change to describe a girl’s heart, this positions the reader to feel heartbreak on the girl’s ‘the first ice of human hurt’.
This poet tells the first time something happened. It also references the cold weather. It’s about a girl who has been finished with or rejected over the phone. The title ‘First Ice’ suggests that that it is the first time this has happened and that the feelings are cold and icy towards the girl far exalt feeling created with ‘The first ice of telephone booth.
He contrasts references to feeling of coldness ‘ frostily’ by using word to describe the only coat on the girl is just the overcoat.Voznesensky employs a number of methods to grab reader attention. He privileges the body part of the girl’s ‘face, palms, fingers and cheeks’ to positioning the reader to empathise on a lonely girl, snow cover on her. She is hard to breathe and lean on the booth by herself. He has use imagery in the first and third lines.
A girl freezes in telephone booth’ in touch tactile image and ‘a face all smeared with lipstick’ in visual image which captures the reader to think about the frozen face of the girl. He employs repetition in ‘alone, alone’ and the image of ice to emphasize the scene. Alteration, ‘first ice, first time and frozen’ are also uses in the poem to reemphasize the reader to know the deep bruise made inside her. Similarly, ‘He-man’ is a bit serious of talking plently on man being tough and strong and rough.Thump-a-man never lets another can over take him. Talks about the bad treatment given to others and highlights how the character ignores what other say.
Wandor express man never loses in ‘never spit flame. ’ She also foregrounds the man’s spirit on not admitting defeat to any person by ‘never’ lets another over take him’ and ‘never lets a man push in the queue. ’ The word ‘never’ has identified the importance of honor for men. She uses repetition to convey the men are most powerful in the universe, ‘thump-a-man-a-day. For instance, ‘stand between his woman and world’, positions the reader to feel grandeur, as do the images of ‘fight her battles’ and ‘thump you if it’s not what for you.
’ In same ways as in ‘First Ice’ express the weakest of a girl, this poet also ends with a humor way to make reader remember it. ‘He-man’ is writing in men stereotypes. Wandor uses similes ‘like your firsts’ to attempt reader feel tough on men. Swearing ‘sh**’, exaggeration ‘fight her battles’ and humor in the last line of the poet are uses to bring the reader to a traditional men’s world.
Therefore, though they were writing in different gender and different appearance. Voznesensky and Wandor are spectacularly similar in regard to the ideas they convey and the ways they are conveyed. ‘First Ice’ is gender specific on the weakest of the girl, rather than having a tough heart just like a rough men. Both effectively represent that gender is a learned behaviors that is changeable overtime. It is distinctly ingrained within and across cultures, that the reader will identify the behaviors they have.
