an analysis of eleanor borwns

Awareness of poetic techniques add to a reader’s understanding and responsiveness to a poems meaning, purpose, effects and implications. This is certainly true of “Your Cake” by Eleanor Brown. The poem discusses the act of making a cake for a relatives’ wedding. Brown splits the cake into its component parts and discusses the etymological roots of the ingredients of the cake, commenting on the development of language as a whole. Furthermore, references to marriage, …showed first 75 words of 1431 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1431 total…employed techniques which add to a reader’s understanding and responsiveness, giving light to certain meanings, purposes, effects and implications. Brown has many purposes in this poem; to show how important motherhood is and to reveal the relationship between the old and the contemporary. The most evident purpose is to show the importance of language through showing the etymological roots of language. Brown does this not to teach, but to show her love of writing.