FEMINISM
IN 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE

WHAT IS FEMINISM?
Feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on
the basis of the equality of sexes.

Title of the Poem: SOLEDAD
SONNET/SPANISH SONNET
14 LINES
10 SYLLABLES PER LINE

STRUGGLES OF WOMEN IN THE EARLY
YEARS..
Right to Vote (April 30, 1937)
Right to be heard
Right to be seen

About the poem…
A sonnet type of a lyric poem
SOLEDAD means “solitude” in Spanish
Written by : Angela Manalang Gloria

How to undress the poem
Who is the Speaker/ persona?
Who is the audience?
What is the tone/mood?

SOLEDAD
It was a sacrilege, the neighbors cried
The way she shattered every mullioned pane
To let a firebrand in. They tried in vain
To understand how one so carved from pride.
And glassed in dream could have so flung aside.
Her graven days, or why she dared profane
The bread and wine of life for some insane
Moment with him. The scandal never died.

But no one guessed that loveliness would claim
Her soul’s cathedral burned by his desires
Or that he left her aureoled in flame…
And seeing nothing but her blackened spires,
The town condemned this girl who loved too well
And found her heaven in the depths of hell.