The Phenomenology of Anger

This poem, the Phenomenology of Anger , states a number of points that we overlooked the other day in class. The first issue is that Rich was speaking of the necessity of more than one person to start a movement. Also, women feel strangelled and man doesn't want to see change because he is comfortable. Another issue is that her ideas border that of Nietzsche's views of conflict. The idea is that conflict has to be bloody and must also consist of anger in order to make change. Examples of this anger int he world is seen in Line 48 when she mentions "My Lai". She speaks of wars, battlefields ,and wars were results of male activity. The most obvious point of contention is that this poem is the first one that we have read that openly declares man the enemy. She directly states this in the stanza starting on line 64
"raking his body down to the thread
of existence
burning away his lie
leaving him in a new
world; a changed
man"
This speaks directly of how inherently evil man is and how opressive of a world women are forced to live in.