Anon

Question 1

What is it about?

Answer 1

The anonymity of women, talents of women have been denied recognition. Their role is that of mothers in society.

Question 2

‘How she passed on her pen like a baton’

Answer 2

• Passing talents down the family line
• May bring to mind a conductor’s baton — a field in which women have rarely been represented

Question 3

‘Anon’

Answer 3

• Used at the end of stanzas it sounds like its building an idea but it never comes - bathos
• Women having a lack of identity/anonymity

Question 4

‘A woman I knew kept her skull on a shelf in the room’

Answer 4

• Could represent the talents she left to die as a woman (whose role was to be a mother)

Question 5

Links to Streetcar

Answer 5

• Idea of women being voiceless
• Disregard for the talents of women- Stella doesn’t work, we don’t know what she has the potential to do
• The unnamed woman