The works of Rita Dove’s “Daystar” describes a woman who is both a mother and a wife and expresses her exhaustion by her daily tasks. The poem is set during a moment of rest for a mother while the children nap. Dove measures the tone by focusing on the mother’s internal struggles regarding her daily activities, which inherits a lack of freedom in her world. The title “Daystar” can interpret as a performer, such as a musician or actor. The word sharply binds well with the woman who plays double roles
Rita Frances Dove is an African-American poet who was born in Akron, Ohio on August 28, 1952. Growing up, she lived in a household that encouraged reading and writing so she developed her love for learning at a very young age. She obtained good grades all throughout primary and into high school, during which she was invited to the White House as a Presidential Scholar prior to her graduation. Thereafter, she attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio where she graduated with a degree in English in
Rita Dove’s “Crab-Boil” takes place in the South. It portrays two characters on the beach boiling crabs and exchanging dialogues. The persona of this poem is a young girl who is skeptic about her surroundings and therefore questions her aunt Helen who is an old woman. Dove uses the conversational method because the little girl asks questions about certain things that aunt Helen is doing with the crabs. Thus, to answer her questions, aunt Helen replies back with answers. This is done so that the reader
daydreams keep the sanity of two women, who miss and long for the freedom that is no longer theirs. In “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Adrienne Rich and “Day Star” by Rita Dove, the theme of women both longing for freedom that is not aloud due to their family obligations. There are similarities and differences in the theme that Rich and Dove choose to portray, by doing this both poets are saying how most women feel about the obligations put on them by society to play a “woman’s role”. One of the first
Rita Dove, an African American poet, is known in her poems for, “lyricism and beauty” ("Rita Dove." List of Books…). In her poem “Persephone, Falling” she uses the harsh beauty in Greek mythology to describe the kidnapping of Persephone, Demeter’s daughter, by Hades. In many of Dove’s poems she describes the “mother-daughter relations,” this can be found in “Persephone, Falling” as she describes the loss of Demeter’s daughter ("Rita Dove." Poetry). “Persephone, Falling” is a poem warning against
express their gratitude to Rosa Parks. Two examples are Douglas Brinkley who wrote a biography called “Rosa Parks” and Rita Dove who wrote an amazing poem, “Rosa” to admire her. Even though both pieces of writings are directed toward Parks they both focus on a different angle of that historical moment. Brinkley includes Parks daily life which helps build up to that moment on the bus. Dove specifically writes about the bus ride and the actions Parks committed. Rosa Parks is one busy woman down
Litter is junk of any sort tossed where it does not have a place. Litter is gum wrappers and cigarette butts. Littered roadways, properties and unlawful dumps cost Pennsylvania a large number of dollars every year in cleanup costs. Littering and illegal dumping additionally scar groups and make individuals miserable. Nobody needs to live encompassed by litter. Another, more self-evident, reason that littering is awful, is that it just looks nasty. The junk can contain illnesses that can be passed
Our Day Out In the play ‘Our Day Out’ by the author Willy Russell, he creates contrast between two exact opposite teachers, and shows how it affects the children by the way they teach and act towards them. At the start of the play Russell writes about how Mrs Kay, who is laid back, kind and loving compared to Mr Briggs who is very strict, aggressive and doesn’t care what others think. In this essay I shall show how the author makes us aware of the big contrast between them and the point he is putting
Educating Rita is a play, set in the 1970s, for two actors set entirely in an office of an Open University, written by Willy Russell. In this play, a 26 year old woman, Rita, seeks an education, as she is unsatisfied with her life, she wants something more. Rita feels that there is no meaning in her life and she wants to find one. This humorous play gives out a very strong message which informs the reader to never give up on life and to strive for your goals to become the very best person you can
Educating Rita is a comedy stage production by the author Willy Russell back in 1980. The play focusses on two characters, Rita and Frank. Rita is a working-class hairdresser and Frank is a middle-class university tutor in Liverpool. The play also includes minor characters such as Denny - Rita’s Husband, and Julia - Frank’s wife. Russell has written similar works to Educating Rita such as Blood Brothers, Shirley Valentine, Our Day Out and The Wrong Boy. Russell had been commissioned to write a