An Analysis Of Head Off Split By Nikky Finney And Butch...

In Head Off Split by Nikky Finney and Butch Geography by Stacey Waite, the reader picks up on many women and gender issues that are portrayed through the text. Stacey Waite used her poetry skills to connect with the reader and allow the reader to feel as though they are the people in the poems. She uses strong language in her poems and uses much power as she reads them. Nikky Finney also uses her poetry skills to portray these gender issues throughout. Both readings display the issue of identity in a women’s life. Butch Geography uses poetry to show real life situations where the narrator runs into a problem finding her identity and who she really is. Head Off Split uses poetry indirectly describe life events that display a woman not†¦show more content†¦Stacey tries to explain to James that he would not like it if someone compared his name to the word stupid. He does not seem to care and describes to her than James is a real name, so it is a different situation. He is implying that gay people are not real and do not have real feelings. This greatly shows how he feels about women changing her identity and how it is not an accepted thing by everyone. The poems in Stacey Waites book show how she has struggled to get people to accept her identity change and show her the same respect as everyone else. In Head Off Split, Nikky Finney shows a women’s identity being downgraded in her poem Left. She describes a scene to the reader that seems rather unpleasant. As the reader reads this poem, they may even feel suspense. A specific example of identity is a woman in the poem who has made a sign asking for help. Her sign was missing the letter e on the word please which the reader probably thinks isn’t a big problem. As you continue reading, Finney writes that the woman did not receive help and asks the reader if it was because her sign was not spelled right. This shows that people may judge people just by looking at them. This woman was no t treated the same as everyone else because her sign was incorrect. Finney continues to write about the options related to why the woman was not saved. She says, â€Å"or was it because the water was rising so fast there wasn’t time† (Finney, 14). Finney is showing the reader that an