Alfonsina Storni was one of the few women who made an impact in the male dominated arenas of literature and theatre, who held a valuable voice in Latin American women’s poetry. Storni was a radical playwrights of her time period. At that time she was writing there were no other women writing and her playwrights were about class and gender tension which went against the norms in Argentine theatre.
The cage is the metaphorical word for men’s way of thinking that a women should be, the oppression that is put on women, and the man represents the men dominating society that man should let women live their lives like they want to and go out to be free to explore.
I believe the “tu” of the poem is an older family member who is passing down the knowledge to the speaker. the “yo” is the younger family member who is learning about her family members. The tear is venom because tears are a sign of weakness but men can be strong and kill the venom while the women cannot take the venom and it kills them in the end. Venom for guys they can pass it while the women are frail and their should cant bear all the burdens from it.
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