Sign Analysis for the first week.

I have selected Electric Girls to analytize this week, mostly because Meitner's work is so damn poignant. Such wonderful language I exert here. At any rate, I love her work because it is so incredibly genius--it strikes daggers into one's heart while at the same time, seems to say something deeply morbid about life. Sweeping generalizations aside, I'll pick this all apart. 

Line 1-- Translucent letters could mean a number of things, but in the context of the poem, I feel like it is probably trying to say that the letters don't really matter.

Lines 4/5-- The ad is an interesting piece, and seems to be part of a unique part of the poem--the two line span that encompasses the ad. It suggests that if it is not an ad for summer, then it is a message from the deities. it refers to the empty letters above, so obviously it might be from the deities because the words are written in the sky. Imagine if the Wicked Witch happened to be a goddess. 

Lines 6-8 -- obviously the goddesses are references to goddesses, but, why those two? Mithra might make sense, because the writing in the sky--sky+Sun, ect. However, Hathor is a bit more problematic. Perhaps supplication to a goddess to look over women which would foreshadow the events to come--where there isn't necessarily anyone watching over women--raises the question: is it feminist in nature? The poem that is.

Lines 7-9 -- More evidence for feminism with guys left simply duct taped in lover's lane. interesting, the use of the word "bound" because generally that comes with "gagged" but she doesn't give us "gagged," because it is men. Men tend not to be bound and gagged nearly as much as women do. Also, the boyfriends are left intact. Generally meaning that something is whole--so the boys are unaffected by the entire ordeal. I am beginning to see more feminism.

Lines 10-13 -- Honestly, I don't have much here...

Lines 14-18 -- Anonymity is the main theme here in this stanza. The girls are raped, and then become worthless after that. The act of the rape is what makes them worth less--removes their names as well as their dignity because their names have already been spread all across America. 

Lines 19-24 -- This part is sudden. I am not entirely sure what to do with it. Women suddenly become empowered in an old society where women were more undervalued than they are today--or perhaps this is meant to make the reader ask if women really are valued more now. 

Lines 25-28 -- Emphasis on the word "Peasant" and her authenticity had to be established. 

Lines 29-32 --Remarks about a testament to the peasant's strength, but discredits her ability as an electric girl. Strips the power and leaves her simply strong--still not the normal trait of a woman.

Lines 33-34 -- Equates the woman to the writing in the sky and therefore the girls. Nothing lasts forever. Everything is temporary. There is nothing that matters.