Topic > Poem by Lucille Clifton: Homage to My Hips - 837

Lucille Clifton is a great poet, she wrote many great poems about women. Homage to My Hips is one of his famous creations that has attracted the attention of many. Yet instead of creating a great poem about equality, what he has made is a completely one-sided opinion about oppressing men, putting women first, and controlling others. In conclusion, her poem is disguised as promoting an innocent woman's body, but the entire poem could be reread as promoting self-centered and manipulative sexism and hypocrisy for extremist feminism. From the beginning, she used "big hips" because women have larger hips than men to facilitate childbirth, and she seemed to describe herself as a woman. She said women have their own free will, they can do whatever they want and nothing can hold them back. They are an epic statement of how women have their own free will, skill, and ability to do what they want. Claiming that her hips are magical, she can manipulate men to spin like a top, suggesting that she has the power to make men do what she wants. This poem is a powerful feminist ideal, for some people. While, for others, it is nothing more than stating that women are the best, and that dominating men is called "feminist". After being reread several times, the poem reveals more than just a message, it is the author's true feminist message about equality between men and women. Yet, in the poem, there is very little information about the men she mentions. The poem is mostly about her or her own body, because she desperately focuses on her image. While I have no argument in favor of men, what he said is a completely one-sided opinion. When he said that “these hips” can do what they want, yet he said that no man can do what he wants. Men are also human, they have the same rights as women, but only women are able to make such a statement because "these hips" have all the power to control them, making them submissive and do not give them the right to have a say in what that they can