In the poem "Julia" by Wendy Rose, it talks about a woman who was born with facial deformations. She was put on display for everyone to see in a circus, where everyone could make fun of her and call her names such as "the worlds ugliest woman" and sometimes "lion lady" because of the long hair growing from her face. This poem is about a woman who is going through great personal despair. Having a husband say he loves her only for the money, he didn't really love her.
He really just wanted to keep her around to make money off of people who just want to stare at her. It really shows how much he did not car for her when he had her body and the body of their 6 hour old child put on display all because he didn't want to lose all the money he could be making from her. This poem is really disturbing to, you can really get a good glimpse just from reading these two poems the kind of stories Wendy Rose writes about, she really knows how to knock you off your chair when you read these.Its another case like in Truganinny, where a body is put on display just for the entertainment of others.
Cali Simmons (post 10)
I am interested in hearing more about what specific aspects of the poems disturbed you and "knocked you off your chair," as you say. What literary techniques does Rose use to impart this sort of tone or feeling, and why might she want her readers to feel this way?
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