Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. She worked as a social worker, teacher and lecturer, and took part in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. She won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1982 novel, ‘The Color Purple’, and is also an acclaimed poet and essayist.
One of her most studied and famous stories is “Everyday Use”. “Everyday use" by Alice Walker was set in the late 1960s or early 1970s, a tumultuous time when many African Americans were struggling to redefine and seize control of their social, cultural, and political identity in American society.
The time in which the poem “Women” took place was an era when groups of all ideologies—some peaceful, some militant—arrived on scene. The Black Panthers and Black Muslims were groups created to resist what they saw as a white-oppressive society.
The word that best describes the tone of this poem is:
C. Reflective
The final stanza of the poem shows evidence of it
To discover books
Desks
A place for us
How they knew what
we
Must know
Without knowing a page
Of it
Themselves.