I Was My Own Route | Julia de Burgos | Poem | Notes | Question Answers
Short Explanation:
This poem captures the voice of feminist writer Julia de Burgos. In this poem she suggests women to make their own route in life because the one they are travelling is made by men for only benefits. She shares how she feels travelling in own route enjoying social rights, and liberation.
Notes:
Question Answers:
1. Explain:
But the branch was unpinned forever,
and at each new whiplash my look
separated more and more and more from the distant
familiar horizons:
-> These lines are taken from the poem ‘I Was My Own Route’. ‘The poem ‘I Was My Own Route’ penned by Julia de Burgos appeals women to travel making their own way. She says that the way women are living are the ways designed by males for their personal benefits. She wants women to make their own way to run the life because walking the route designed by male can question women’s self – being.
In these lines she says that the branch was unpinned forever which means she is already separated from the male ideologies on gender roles. She means to say that she has started living being unpinned from the route designed by the men. She says that when she is criticized by the people for her living, she came to know that these old guards don’t like women living freely, independently, and equally. She that’s why says that she wanted to run her life making her own route because it is the way that gives her own identity. Here familiar horizons can be better explained as women have seen males using rights, freedom and everything. Women have seen how men live so it can be referred as familiar horizon but never reached. So she tries to reach to the familiar horizon grabbing every rights, freedom, and living own route happily.
2. Who are the old guards? Why did they grow desperate?
-> According to the poet old guards are the people having patriarchal ideologies, narrow mind and traditional people. Who only demand for male domination. At most, they hate when women live with their social rights, freedom and enjoy equality.
They became desperate because the poet started living on her own way and she did not follow the traditional gender roles. Ss they try to make her weak by criticizing her and her deeds negatively.
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