All of the poems you read in this unit were written frc a male point of view. what feminine ideal do you think emerges from these poems? what is your opinion about it? how do you think it compares with the idea of femininity in the middle ages?

i believe it is he has been given the drum as a joke.

on my last

frances ellen watkins harper writing was influenced by: b. the education she received growing up in the north.

she was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 24, 1825. after the death of her parents, her uncle reverend william watkins, a teacher at the academy for negro youth, raised and educated her. she also continued educating herself by accessing a library of the family she worked for, beginning writing poetry afterwards. as a civil rights activist and abolitionist, watkins greatly influenced her life and work.