Read the poem below and answer the question. Women

by Alice Walker

They were women then

My mama’s generation

Husky of voice—stout of

Step

With fists as well as

Hands

How they battered down

Doors

And ironed

Starched white

Shirts

How they led

Armies

Head ragged generals

Across mined

Fields

-trapped

Ditches

To discover books

Desks

A place for us

How they knew what we

Must know

Without knowing a page

Of it

Themselves.

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In a minimum of 150 words, compare and contrast the use of metaphor in the poems "Women" and "Caged Bird."