Question

In 200 words, identify the theme of Audre Lorde's poem "Hanging Fire." Support your answer with at least three examples (of your choosing) from the text.

Answer 1

Answer:

The main theme of the poem is the conflicts that a teenager goes through.

Explanation:

This poem is related by a teenager who finds herself with fears and problems. She is afraid of loneliness, death and criticizes sexism.

All this she must face alone, since her mother is only locked in her room.

Let's look at the aforementioned problems:

• Fear of loneliness: This is expressed every time she says: "and momma's in the bedroom with the door closed ", she is afraid to face this whole stage alone and her mother does not accompany her. Also in another line she expresses this fear with the following words: "Nobody even stops to think about my side of it "

• Fear of death: He refers to this repeatedly: "what if I die  before morning "," suppose I die before graduation "," will I live long enough to grow up ".

• She criticizes sexism: "I should have been on Math Team my marks were better than his". Someone has rejected her just because she is a woman.

Answer 2

Answer:

Audre Lorde’s poem Hanning Fire is about a fourteen year old girl that is discovering her life. She talks about the turbulence that she is experiencing, that are typical teenage worries and fears. At the same time she is lonely and believes that she is helpless.

One of the main issues she talks about in the poem is LONELINESS. The author uses a series of hints of loneliness to express many problems the girl is facing.

There are many examples of this loneliness on the text.

1) Lines 10-12 “and momma’s in the bedroom/with the door closed”.

2) Lines 17-18 “… but finally/tell the truth about me”.

3) Lines 24-25 “Nobody even stops to think/about my side of it”.

Explanation: