by means of power

By Means of Power Both Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde, in their respective poems entitled Power, convey the idea that ones identity and sense of worth is defined by what they are willing to give up. This message is energized by the emotion the authors evoke through their ability to communicate a sense of experience. It is this experience as mothers and highly intelligent feminists that allow us to feel the unconditional caring towards humanity …

…people these two authors herald in their works are some of the noblest. There is no way to understand the power these women feel in standing for what they believe in. The belief that doing for others is more important than doing for yourself and that in turn you will receive a sense of power that only comes in not asking for it is greater than any sense of power taken by force or fraud.