Alice Walker 4

A Woman’s Place is in the Heart The poems “A Woman Is Not A Potted Plant” by Alice Walker and “I Knew A Woman” by Theodore Roethke both speak about women having an aura about them of beauty and magnificence. In “A Woman Is Not A Potted Plant” Walker uses the metaphor of a plant to explain the nature of a real woman. The image of a potted plant is confined to a small …

…a feature on a woman that is not normally gushed over so one would tend to assume the former. In the last line of the poem he says that he now measures time “by how a body sways” (line 28). His concept of the world, eternity, and time was altered by her presence in his life. This poem speaks about the colossal impact this beautiful and highly confident woman had on the life of the narrator.