The Tiger-Women by Donald (Grady) Davidson
Movement DescriptionThe Fugitive was a literary magazine of poetry and criticism published at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1922 until 1925. Both faculty and students, including John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, among others, contributed to this publication. Some of the Fugitive poets went on to form a second group, the Agrarians, whose 1930 manifesto of essays, I'll Take My Stand, remains a controversial document in the development of Southern literature.
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Poem AnalysisDonald Davidson in the poem “The Tiger-Women” talks about how women have the power to influence a man and control them with their beauty. In the poem Donald stated, “She led me to a little glade,—, The creepers with the moon in wove,—, And two great striped beasts leaped up, And fawned upon her breast in love.” This shows how she was able to control him and make him follow her to where she wanted to take him. Also when the man heard the tiger- woman’s voice he was not scared.
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Literary DevicesIn the poem “The Tiger-Women” the poet uses the literary devices, Hyperbole and Assonance. Hyperbole is used when Donald states, “The jungle is a fearsome place, For men who hunt, and men who slay, But I was not afraid to go, Where Tiger-Woman led the way,” It shows how the women are more brave and fearless than the men who hunt. Assonance is used when the end of every other line has a rhyme.
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