Grace Nichols Poems

Discuss the presentation of women in Grace Nichols poems. Use quotations to support your observations. Grace Nichols, and afro-american woman, lived amongst women which had to work and fight for a living. In her poems, she shows how her life was and how women had to live in those conditions. She shows many aspects of the life conditions. Firstly, Grace Nichols presents women as very hard-working and spiritually and physically strong. This is clearly shown …

…used to work toughly under very bad conditions. Another example of this are lines 8 and 9, "she tried hard to walk like a woman". This shows that this women where working toughly and the sense of "woman" is lost. In conclusion, I think the presentation of women in Grace Nichols poems is to show how poor the living conditions were in Africa and how the sense of the "African woman" is being lost because of slavery.