A Woman's Place is in the Heart
The poems "A Woman Is Not A Potted Plant" by Alice Walker and "I Knew A Woman" by Theodore Roethke both speak about women having an aura about them of beauty and magnificence. In "A Woman Is Not A Potted Plant" Walker uses the metaphor of a plant to explain the nature of a real woman. The image of a potted plant is confined to a small ceramic circle and rooted in one place. Potted plants have to be taken care of and cannot exist by themselves. Women are not like that according to Walker. She is saying that women cannot be bound to any certain thing or by anything. They are not in need of someone to take care of them despite what someone may have told them or what some men think. In the second stanza she says that a woman's "leaves" are not "trimmed to the contours of her sex" (lines 8-10). Walker is saying that her physical shape does not have to be any certain way for her to be a beautiful woman. Women are beautiful just because they are......
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