Order for Masks Essay Example

King Lear who underestimated his three daughters that led to his fall. Blind Lear” supports the idea that the speaker is hiding something that would not let her father trace or notice it by pretending that she is still the daughter she knows. And the last mask she would wear if she is with her “Seducer”. Here in the last stanza, it shows the one she’s hiding. Words are used figuratively, “will in colors race”, “carnival stars”, “change in shape” and it was supported by “under his grasping hands” describing her relationship to her lover, that the speaker was battered and bruised by his lover's hands.

The first three lines of the fourth stanza tell that everything his lover wants must be done. And the fourth line tells that the battering is typical of their relationship. But on the fifth, telling that she is staying strong as a stone from her lover’s actions towards her. And it was supported by the last three lines of this stanza that her lover is pretending, not knowing his feat to the speaker of the poem. Conclusion

The poem by Virginia Moreno “Order for Masks” is very feminist, symbolizing a battered woman of our society. Even though the woman in the poem is under abuse, she still manages to stay strong beyond her family members, as if nothing happens. It shows as one of the qualities of a Filipino woman; a martyr. The poem used many allusions to improve poem. The tone of the speaker in the poem is longing and melancholy as behind the suffering, she’s showing that she is fine towards others.