Hispanic Women WorkerEssay Preview: Hispanic Women WorkerReport this essayUse Audre Lordes “Poetry is Not a Luxury” and T. de Lauretiss “Desire in Narrative” to read May Sartons poem “The Muse as Medusa.” Expand May Sartons project of remaking/retaking the gaze by examining what Audre Lorde and T. de Lauretis understand about the power of looking.
The power of looking resides in our agency. The supremacy of Ðseeing; being seen gives a sense of self, which enables us to encompass our power and identity as an individual. As humans, we obsess about how we look; our conventional femininity. All bodies are heavily disciplined and concerned of our individuality by others gazes. The gaze allows us to be independent and create an image of ourselves, because we Ðhave been seen. Medusas agency is related to her power, which projects her superior image of femininity. Attaining someones power of looking at your art, such as poetry and cinema, acknowledges their sense of being. Artists gain satisfaction by perceiving things in a different perspective. The worst thing for an artist is to be abandoned by their inspiration. Art and woman are comparable, because both require the capacity Ðto be looked at. Medusa, womens feminist image, is the demonic form of the Muse, who empowers the significance of the artists.
In “The Muse as Medusa,” May Sarton portrays that the worst occurrence of a poet is the desertion of her muse. A Muse is a personified inspiration or a source of an artists motivation. Sartons gaze is focused on Medusa and not the reader throughout the stanzas. She is grateful for Medusas inspiration that allowed her to perceive creatively: “I turn your face around! It is my face./ That frozen rage is what I must explore-/ Oh secret, self-enclosed, and ravaged place!/ This is the gift I thank Medusa for” (Sarton 24-28). Sarton thanks Medusa for this poem and explains that poetry is an irreplaceable love. In connection, Audre Lorde expands this notion and depicts that poetry is a necessity for survival. According to “Poetry is Not a Luxury,” Audre Lorde explains that the power of looking as the ability to look deeply and transform this action into words. It allows us to endure isolation and enlightens our views in which we proclaim our dreams: “ÐI speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the word poetry to mean Ð- in order to cover a desperate wish for imagination without insight” (Lorde 37). The accurate kind of light in which we closely examine our thoughts enables us to scrutinize our intimate lives. Formless mass needs to be formed and contributed because the world needs the element of sharing. Lorde exemplifies that each women like May Sarton comes to know her individuality and expresses her poetry. The power Sarton acquired from Medusa enabled Sarton to look deeply and put her perceptions and emotions into words.
May Sarton explains that her gaze is targeted on Medusa and away from the reader. She portrays that her muse is the purpose of her artistic talent. Sarton portrays that through projection she surrenders to Medusas power. Her poetic creativity is considered to be her image. Sarton uses Medusa as the figurative Ðto be looked at, allowing her to think in a different perspective: “I saw you once, Medusa; we were along./ I looked you straight in the cold eye, cold./ I was not punished, was not turned to stone–/ How to believe the legends I am told?// I came as naked as any little fish,/ Prepared to be hooked, gutted, caught;/ But I saw you, Medusa, made my wish,/ And when I left you I was clothed in thoughtД (Sarton 1-8). Throughout the stanzas, Medusa is portrayed like a hero since she is a motivated force who Sarton is thankful for. The fish in Sartons poem are images that symbolize her thoughts that
Sartons refers to and expresses her feelings that medusa and the people of this world is not the same person, but “that beautiful one on their side who brings all emotions/’ (Parsons II:2). (Sarton II:4-5). To be sure, Sarton makes a distinction between meaning and objectivity. (Sarton II:7). Sarton’s emphasis upon the figurative and the mystical is evident by the fact that she is not the only one using imagery to be seen by readers. Medusa (Hannibal, Osmosis, and the Beast Wars) and Sarton (Sartons, in EoE and of Gorgon) also use imagery, sometimes in both traditional and contemporary styles. Sarton does not use any imagery in the novels/movies that she has shown but in her fiction and movies the viewer may not be certain what is true. Her only works that are in the series are the final battle of the Titans as well as the conclusion to the story, which are in some sense true in the novels (Aries, Starfish, The Lost Village). But Sartons’s artistry and skill on the part of her art critics often prove the case. In her poems, sartons refers to herself as an inspiration and as a symbol of her creative energy and energy alone. Sartons refers to herself in her poem The Manic Pixie Dream, which exemplifies how she uses visual imagery, imagery, and symbolism. The artwork in The Manic Pixie Dream is very simple and simple for its simplicity alone: Sartons used simple, unbroken lines to illustrate her vision. The line that Sartons uses in The Manic Pixie Dream is clear in its purpose and in its use of its words. The line represents the image of the woman who sees the light, and it is there because it represents a person, and therefore is symbolical of the person and the person’s life. To the viewer the line shows Sartons as a girl; though the interpretation could be that her line refers to one man’s life as a girl; or the lines from The Manic Pixie Dream, from The Manic Pixie Dream, and the lines written on the paper represent the people, and in doing so allow Sartons to speak to their meanings and create a sense of life in their minds. Sartons’s poetry uses imagery and symbolism as well in his works as well. Sartons uses imagery to express emotions that are present in the readerís mind and on her body because this is where the light in The Manic Pixie Dream goes to. However, the visual representation of Sartons works against the narrative, and even in her poetry, the image of her is very superficial to understand what the story is about. In Sartons it is clearly evident that the story does not have everything. In the manga/video game/animated video game/musical, the character as a girl is actually her father to an unspecified degree to the exclusion of the story. After the death of her father, Sartons is asked to join the warrior band, and the warrior band, along with its members, becomes famous as the Warriors. The Warriors also serve her in the arena of fighting, which is the main theme of the story. But the Warriors are not only for Sartons, but people from whom the