Explanation:
In the part of the poem "The house of Yemanjá", where Audre Lorde says that:
"My mother had two faces and a frying pot
where she cooked up her daughters
into girls
before she fixed our dinner.
My mother had two faces
and a broken pot
where she hid out a perfect daughter
who was not me
I am the sun and moon and forever hungry
for her eyes".
She uses metaphors like "My mother had two faces and a frying pot where she cooked up her daughters into girls " , in this excerpt Ana Lorde refers to the education her mother gave her to be a conventional girl in the system, and in the part that says that "I am the sun and the moon and forever hungry for her eyes." She refers to her personality, who is a challenger and activist for feminist rights and the fight against racism.
She uses these resources as ways of expressing her personal feelings and impacting the reader to make her texts more expressive.
