What Do Women Want?
By Kim Addonizio
I enjoyed Addonizio's poem and the amount of feeling put into it. The red dress is obviously important to her and as the main visual object in the poem it comes to hold some power and symbolism behind it. I feel that the dress is like some visual metaphor for the poem's main subject, whom I'm guessing might be Addonzio, and it represents her strength and confidence. The poem also oozes a very "I could do what I want and you can't do anything to stop me" kind of vibe as the subject goes on about how she'd wear her red dress whenever and wherever and she doesn't care about what people think of her, she'll wear her red dress as she pleases! Hearing the poem read aloud by Addonizio herself did change my mind a little. Through the beginning and middle of the poem Addonizio doesn't seem put too much emphasis or real feeling behind her words until she gets to the end of the poem and really lets it out at the " And I'll wear it like bones, like skin, it'll be the goddamn dress they buy me in." There it really has a lot of feeling punched into it and makes the line feel more vital than the rest.
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