Women by Alice walker

1.What generation of women does the speaker describe?

2. List three things that these women tried to obtain for their children.

3.How did they go about obtaining what they knew their children needed?

4. In lines 12-18 Walker uses an implied metaphor, suggesting rather than stating a comparison. What does she compare the women to?

5. What is the speaker's tone, her attitude toward these women?

6.What words or phrases in the poem help you identify the speaker's tone?