Asleep, or wide awake I dream the dream<\/p>\n
A world where women lead<\/p>\n
And men are left inside<\/p>\n
A world where women rule<\/p>\n
And men are rarely seen<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Intelligence and science are the way to succeed<\/p>\n
The brain stops at nothing, no muscle is too strong<\/p>\n
We, the mighty women do belong<\/p>\n
As rulers, as queens, in charge of the greater world<\/p>\n
Education is the road along which we travel<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
When the choice must be made:<\/p>\n
Intelligence vs. Military strength<\/p>\n
Who is the better choice?<\/p>\n
When awake the military wins<\/p>\n
When asleep the brain claims its voice<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
And they win<\/p>\n
The sun is clear<\/p>\n
The light is clear<\/p>\n
The answer is clear<\/p>\n
But dreams are unclear<\/p>\n
So<\/p>\n
Will this dream remain in the daylight?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
After reading Sultana\u2019s Dream <\/em>I felt a sense of empowerment that could only be expressed in the form of a poem. The primary themes central to the story were not only female vs. male societal roles, but also intelligence, as associated with women, and military strength, as associated with men. As I mentioned in my blog post earlier, my education in an all girls school taught me that intelligence is the means to power for women. In Sultana\u2019s Dream<\/em> I found it interesting that the debate between military power and intelligence was portrayed under the beams of bright sunlight. I reflected upon this image in my poem, because I feel that there is an important connection between the light shining and its illumination of the female capacity to act intelligently and triumph in \u201cbattle\u201d. The women\u2019s scientific use of the light is a metaphor for the brightness and intellect that they possess. Upon waking up from a dream, the majority of my dreams are blurry and disconnected. I often wonder why I had such a dream, and what its \u201cdeeper significance\u201d is. In Sultana\u2019s Dream<\/em> it was clear that the women won the test in battle, but will the decisiveness of this dream remain when the narrator awakens? What does awakening from such a dream really mean? I felt that since this dream was recalled with such clarity, the concept of female empowerment in general has commenced the transition from dream to reality. The answer, the meaning of the dream was so apparent to the reader that it seems nonsensical for it to not be a more prevalent view in society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Asleep, or wide awake I dream the dream A world where women lead And men are left inside A world where women rule And men are rarely seen Intelligence and science are the way to succeed The brain stops at nothing, no muscle is too strong We, the mighty women do belong As rulers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7884,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/athaler97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/athaler97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/athaler97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/athaler97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/athaler97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/athaler97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/athaler97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/athaler97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/athaler97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/athaler97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}