A Study Guide for Marge Piercy's "To be of use"
()
About this ebook
Read more from Gale
A Study Guide for Louis Sachar's "Holes" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA study guide for Frank Herbert's "Dune" Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide for James Clavell's "Shogun" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for George Orwell's Animal Farm Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for William Shakespeare's Macbeth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Lois Lowry's The Giver Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Psychologists and Their Theories for Students: ALBERT BANDURA Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for James Joyce's "James Joyce's Ulysses" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for John Rawls's "A Theory of Justice" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Business Plans Handbook: Auto Detailing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Psychologists and Their Theories for Students: JEAN PIAGET Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusiness Plans Handbook: Bakery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for George Orwell's 1984 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide (New Edition) for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusiness Plans Handbook: Furniture Businesses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Wole Soyinka's "Death and the King's Horsemen" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Shirley Jackson's The Lottery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide (New Edition) for William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to A Study Guide for Marge Piercy's "To be of use"
Related ebooks
Gale Researcher Guide for: Louise Erdrich: Writing an Ojibwe Experience Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Richard Wright's "Bright and Morning Star" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for William Saroyan's "Resurrection of a Life" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Bobbie Ann Mason's "In Country" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsImage of the Indian Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Galway Kinnell's "St. Francis and the Sow" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTransnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUrban Villages and Local Identities: Germans from Russia, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese in Lincoln, Nebraska Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Patriot After All: The Story of a Chicano Vietnam Vet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Grief's Country: A Memoir in Pieces Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reflections: Ultra Short Personal Narratives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRadical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Touching the Edge: A Mother's Spiritual Journey from Loss to Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTo Light a Fire: 20 Years with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMichelle Obama: Vital Life Lessons for Every Young Person Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTailings: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The South in Modern America: A Region at Odds Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Summary of Kate Clifford Larson's Bound for the Promised Land Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJuliette, Rising Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReligious Intolerance in America, Second Edition: A Documentary History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBut Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWomen's Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women's Novels Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOutside Agitator: The Civil Rights Struggle of Cleveland Sellers Jr. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCurating America: Journeys through Storyscapes of the American Past Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEl Mundo Zurdo 3: Selected Works from the Meetings of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa 2012 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReady Reference Treatise: Under the Feet of Jesus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBehind the Public Veil: The Humanness of Martin Luther King Jr. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBoys Don't Cry?: Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTeaching the Works of Eudora Welty: Twenty-First-Century Approaches Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Teaching Methods & Materials For You
How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic, Second Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Speed Reading: Learn to Read a 200+ Page Book in 1 Hour: Mind Hack, #1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Three Bears Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Speed Reading: How to Read a Book a Day - Simple Tricks to Explode Your Reading Speed and Comprehension Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Take Smart Notes. One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The 5 Love Languages of Children: The Secret to Loving Children Effectively Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Personal Finance for Beginners - A Simple Guide to Take Control of Your Financial Situation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Science of Making Friends: Helping Socially Challenged Teens and Young Adults Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Principles: Life and Work Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Four-Hour School Day: How You and Your Kids Can Thrive in the Homeschool Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers: The Secret to Loving Teens Effectively Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5From 150 to 179 on the LSAT Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Lost Tools of Learning Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Verbal Judo, Second Edition: The Gentle Art of Persuasion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jack Reacher Reading Order: The Complete Lee Child’s Reading List Of Jack Reacher Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Closing of the American Mind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for A Study Guide for Marge Piercy's "To be of use"
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
A Study Guide for Marge Piercy's "To be of use" - Gale
10
To Be of Use
Marge Piercy
1973
Introduction
Much of Marge Piercy's poetry is informed by her Jewish background as well as by her sense of activism, which was cultivated during the anti-Vietnam War and women's rights movements of the 1970s. The poem To Be of Use,
which first appeared in 1973 in a volume by the same name, is often examined within the context of Piercy's Jewish identity and her role as a political and social activist. A self-described feminist, Piercy is a well-respected novelist as well as a poet, and the vivid phrasing as well as the visual vignettes of To Be of Use
are suggestive of her storytelling abilities. In the loosely-structured poem, Piercy uses straightforward language and an informal tone to praise the value of hard work and purposeful action. Acts of common, physical labor are compared with beautiful yet utilitarian artifacts from different cultures. Piercy evokes a simpler time with her references to ancient cultures and the hand-harvesting of food, lending the poem a sense of yearning for times past. At the same time, the poem is uplifting and hopeful about the future. Piercy acknowledges her love for people who embrace this same simple, hard-working attitude of long ago, and her reverent attitude regarding such people conveys her faith in their abilities to improve the world through their