With having read through the webpages given to us it was to my interest to want to discuss feminists and popular culture. The feminist era in literature was all about women's rights and how to gain more respect in the workplace. Literature during the 1970's was very inspiring due to the fact that I am a female and I have high expectations of women today and the women of the future. Also, in the literature that the feminist's had written it was not just about what was happening right in that moment but did happen to them in the past, the discrimination and exclusion they faced everyday until that moment. These feminists mainly expressed how they want their future life to be and how important that is to them and every woman coming into the world.
Popular culture was not just introduced in the 1960's but in all of history all over the world, popular culture has always remained such an important factor in societies. Specifically in the 1960's, popular culture was a huge epidemic because during this time was also known as the drug years where people would get high to express themselves in ways they were not capable of doing while sober. Literature during this time showed a different perspective and showed the public new ways to interpret what they are reading in the morning paper or what they are hearing in a song.
The Walt Whitman poem "I Hear America Sing" applies to both of the eras I wrote about, because he references women's struggle and he also referred to living in the moment and living for the day given to you.
The Langston Hughes poem "I, Too, Sing America" shows how everyone is in fact America regardless of skin color or gender.
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