PATTERNS Poem by Amy Lowell powerpoint presentation

It is a powerpoint presentation for the poem "Patterns" by Amy Lowell.

1. 1874-1925
-when in school considered herself
to be developing "masculine" and
"ugly" features and she was a social
outcast
-said to be lesbian
-1912 she and actress Ada Dwyer
Russell were reputed to be lovers.
Amy lawrence lowell

2. Patterns by Amy Lowell
- an eighteenth-century noblewoman awaiting
the return of her fiancé who has gone off to
fight with the duke in Flanders.
-dressed in the constrictive gown, powdered
wig, and jeweled fan of the eighteenth
century, she contrasts the natural colors and
configurations of daffodils and squills, bulbs
that flower in spring. 

3. Patterns by Amy Lowell
and the train makes a pink and silver stain-
training that she received as a would-be
bride to a man of high respect and honor.
-she was trained to behave high class and
eloquent with her behavior and dress up
and could not be like her true self; waits
eagerly for her lover who can set her free
from all the social boundaries and let her
lead the ways of their lives

4. Patterns by Amy Lowell
- dreaming of the sexual consummation of
their marriage, she receives message that
her Lord was killed in the war. 
-she envisions her future as one that will
forever remain trapped within the patterns
of her current life, without any hope of
being liberated from the sexual restrictions
of an unmarried woman

5. -stiff, brocaded gown
- culturally imposed conventions; a natural
self underneath which yearns to be freed
from its restrictions
-sharp cry of pain of a woman suffocated by
a patriarchal society
-tragedy of woman in wartime

6. -stiff, brocaded gown
- culturally imposed conventions; a
natural self underneath which yearns
to be freed from its restrictions
-sharp cry of pain of a woman
suffocated by a patriarchal society

7. -transcends both war and love, and is
ultimately an expression of the
repressed rebellion against the
conventions and laws of life that bind
the heart of every living soul

8. -We all have certain patterns that we
follow in lives.
-Everything on this earth and even
the nature has its patterns