Lucille Clifton, who died on February 13, relied on her subtle, extraordinary imagination to turn everyday words and commonplace constructions into unforgettable images and powerful poems. Sonnets, villanelles, and the other fanciful embroideries of rhythm and rhyme she left to others, preferring to fill out her lines with reality, with sadness, and most memorably with humor and warmth.
"Homage to my Hips" is one of the many poems that Clifton composed. In this poem she makes a reference to her body giving stress to just a part of it, which are her hips and she enforces that with the lowercase “i “when she says, "i have known them to put a spell on a man and spin him like a top!" (Line 13-15) She concentrates on her hips and gives them supreme control of everything. She lets the reader know that her hips make her feel free, be queen of her body. She sees herself as a free self-determining woman, but at the same time her "big"(line 1) "mighty" (line 11 ) "magic"(line 12 ) hips make her look a very sensual and seducing woman with men. It is very obvious the presence of feminist point of views in this writing when she mentions that "they don't like to be held back. These hips have never been enslaved, they go wherever they want to go, they do what they want to do. “(Line 7-10)
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