Rooming Houses Are Old Women (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Audre Lorde
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
The Poem
Audre Lorde’s “Rooming Houses Are Old Women” is a thirty-line free-verse lyric that expresses the emotional and spiritual state of impoverished, lonely, old black women. The poem is laid out in three parts, the longest being the first, with fifteen lines, and the shortest being the three-line middle section. At first, these parts seem to be simply demarcations of setting, as it were, slowly moving readers, along with the old women, from the interior of rooming houses to the exterior world and back again, but a closer reading shows that they are intended to lead...
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