Rita Dove Daystar

It talks about dealing with loss. People deal with loss in many different ways and feel many different things. This poem allows readers to feel the grievance through his words. Once a reader begins to read the poem immediately they will feel like continuing to read. People who have dealt with loss can relate to this poem.

First, Dove’s individual shifts in tone help to structure the general theme of acceptance by enhancing HER perspective on the subject. To illustrate, the poem begins with a straightforward and critical tone, evident through HER judgement of the heart. With defined word choice in lines like, “It’s neither red / nor sweet” (1-2), and, “it isn’t even / shapely” (12-13), the reader can understand Dove’s condemning tone. Thus, the fault-finding tone forms the theme of the poem by describing how Dove views HER heart’s imperfections, the same imperfections that SHE wishes will not interfere with HER emotional life. Likewise, Dove’s reflective yet realistic tone shown in lines like, “[HER heart] isn’t even / shapely-- / just a thick clutch / of muscle”

Rita Dove has made numerous literature pieces including poems. Rita Dove, born on August 28, 1952, is an African-American poet and essayist. She has made a poem titled as ¨Sunday Greens¨. The poem's plot is of a woman in hard times who wants change in her life and remembers her time with her mother. The setting of the poem is the woman´s kitchen on a Sunday morning. The poem's theme is when people want to change their lives, they must remember their parents struggles with life.

Daystar by Rita Dove emphasizes gender roles and the expectations society has towards being a mother. Often believed that mothers should assume responsibility for cooking, cleaning, tending to their demanding children and husbands. The poem illustrates the challenges women endure to live up to society’s expectations to be a fit mother and wife. As seen through the main character mothers have to make sacrifices that often puts everyone else’s happiness before their own. For example, the women in the poem desired to have time to herself, but she couldn’t because of endless chores and children to care for. Not having time to herself making her feel lost and unfulfilled.

Rita Dove’s Mother Love is a collection of poems that houses sonnet-like, lyrical poems ranging in topics from mother-daughter relationships to nostalgic memories, to self-identity. Their settings are equally diverse; poems set in Ancient Greece to plantations to sitting in a driveway listening to Dinah Ross’s song. The unifying theme is Dove’s collection is not only the predominantly feminine subjects and point of view, but also carefully selected words. Dove explains her precision in choosing her words in an interview with Elizabeth Alexander’s for the Association of Writers and Writer’s Programs,“Let's put it this way: If the very sound of those words, the patterns heard in the way they're put down and work together—if that doesn't affect

In today’s American culture, the woman of the house is expected to not only stay at home and raise her children but also to please and tend to her husband as well. Rita Dove poem, Daystar, illustrates just that. A woman who feels trapped because of her role as a mother and wife. “Daystar” comes from a book of poems written by Dove entitled Thomas and Beulah, which tells both the real and unreal stories of dove’s maternal grandparents (Bartleby). Within the poem, Daystar, imagery, setting, and language work together to bring forth to the readers the individual need for reflection the speaker is longing for.

All mothers have a hard, constant, job when it comes to taking care of their children. They typically work night and day making sure that their child is being given nothing but the best, however, people do not realize how tiring and strenuous this job is. Rita Dove goes into the life and daily routine in her poem “Daystar” as the mother feels somewhat trapped by her kids. Within this poem, Dove incorporates imagery to its full potential, has more than enough symbolism, has a soft loving tone and voice which brings the reader onto a personal level with the mother, and has a clear moral to the story.

as told from the point of view of a friend serving as pall bearer. The poem

It is the sad truth of the major population today—you eat, you work, you die. The old man narrating these words is explaining the sad story of a widowed mother, a title not uncommon today. This poem is just the sad story of a woman that lost her husband to war and her children because, ultimately, there just wasn’t enough money to sustain them all. Again, this is an example of Romantic poetry connecting the common people through ethic and sympathy.

The poem supports the theme of the meaningless relationships, and now the neglect ion by the young man on the account of the older lady, who gropes in vain for communication. Such effects can call upon the futility of the relationship that may exist between the modern man and woman. The descriptions of the events suggest that the poem also lacks a cohesive plat, yet still unified by the tone of tragedy of the woman. There is no outcome of the Endeavour in this poem. There was no conversation that leads

Silvia Plath is an emotional writer, in her 1962 poem Daddy, she displays a complex set of emotions and feelings. The poem Daddy is like the rest poems of Sylvia Plath’s in a sense that they are dark, and leaving the reader with a sense of hopelessness and despair, and this makes the reader question himself why the author feels that way. The poem shows feelings of anger depression, and fear. This short-written poem will be analyzed on imagery, metaphor, and symbolism all these makes Sylvia Plath to conjures the struggle that many women face in a male dominated society.

Rita Dove’s “Daystar” speaks of a woman’s daily routine as a housewife. On a deeper level, this poem speaks to the need experienced by this housewife to have something of her very own. Throughout the day, she is a maid and caretaker; at night she fulfills her wifely duties. Everything has become mundane, even down to her lovemaking with her husband evidenced through her statement “Thomas rolled over and lurched into her.” The speaker is trapped behind the needs of her husband and children and is desperate for an

In the previous reading of “The Mother”, a light was thrown down on the ideas of hardships and sadness regarding abortions. With using New Criticism as the first approach, the poem was able to come alive. It was about a mother who could not figure out how to explain the grief she felt weighing on her shoulders. Even though it was her choice to abort her children, it still left scars mentally, and psychically. Now, after exploring the poem in the eyes of a New Critic, my next approach will be from a Feminist standpoint. Through this new perspective, a different light can shine down, and create a further understanding of sex, gender, the role of the father, and more present in the poem.

Love is one theme that cuts across both poems. However the poet’s distinctively portrays the love in different ways. In the poem Home Burial, the poet portrays a lost love between the husband and the wife. When the two entered into a union as a wife and a husband they initially loved each other. However, as the marriage progresses, tragedies hit them. From losing their first child to lack of apathy by the husband, the marriage has been hit by

There are many types of love and many ways of expressing it. These poems vary from discussing about an undying love between family members, obsessive love for a spouse/lost love and how true love is unconditional. A wide range of language techniques are employed to convey the poets' respective views and challenge the reader's own ideas of what love is.