"I Have Come To Claim"

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This paper analyzes Judy Grahn's "I Have Come to Claim," a feminist poem relating to Marilyn Monroe. The paper examines the tone, setting and literary devices employed in the poem to get its very bold statement about society's corrupt perception of women, across to its readers.

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"Grahn cleverly chooses to direct the entire poem to the deceased bombshell, Marilyn Monroe. It is as if the speaker is holding her brown paper sack, containing the physical remains of Monroe, and speaking directly to Marilyn's body. In this way, Grahn makes a powerful statement about the public image of Marilyn Monroe. The speaker implies that one can have the same conversation with Marilyn's bones as they could with Marilyn as a living person. She is pointing out that women like Marilyn Monroe were never respected as personalities, only as bodies. If this is the case, then speaking to Marilyn's bones would indeed be no different than speaking to Marilyn Monroe herself."

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