There is no desire or physical need beyond a harmless kiss. Poet Laureate, is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the Duke Ellington Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Humanities Medal, the Heinz Award, the NAACP Great American Artist Award, and numerous other awards. Their inquiry does not go past the physical nature of a boy’s lips.
Rita Dove successfully portrays the pure curiosity of young girls by simply illustrating the tame nature of the girls’ attitude toward boys. We know most of the girls are inexperienced because they listen so closely to Linda’s description. The girls only talk about how soft a boy’s lips are, and the conversation does not go any further than that. This poem describes the innocent behavior of young girls toward young boys. Just by comprehending these lines, the reader knows how intrigued the girls are to listen to Linda’s words. The narrator claims, “A firefly whirred near my ear, and in the distance I could hear streetlamps ping into miniature suns against a feathery sky”. The audience can feel how fascinated the other girls are in what Linda shares by Rita Dove’s explanation of the scene. Listening intently to her words, the other girls learn from Linda’s experience. Kneeling in their grandmother’s backyard, one of the girls named Linda shares with the others that she indeed felt a boy’s lips and they are “as soft as a baby’s skin”. Rhythm - The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.In this poem, Rita Dove depicts a scene of a group young girls inquiring about a boy’s lips. Caesura - A strong pause within a line of verse. Simile - A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though.
Quatrain -A four-line stanza in a poem, the first four lines and the second four lines in a Petrachan sonnet Hyperbole - A figure of speech involving exaggeration. Assonance - The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose Open form - A type of structure or form in poetry characterized by freedom from regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, metrical pattern, and overall poetic structure. Alliteration - The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.
Dactyl - A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones, as in FLUT-ter-ing or BLUE-ber-ry. An enjambed line differs from an end-stopped line in which the grammatical and logical sense is completed within the line. Tercet - each stanza in this poem is a tercetĮnjambment -A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. I like her use of language in this poem, whether it is about the men and the moon or about the night which "rests like a ball of fur on my tongue", and this is ultimately why I chose it. The moon is also repeated in this poem, and I think it must be a metaphor for this dream or hope she has, or maybe it is simply just the bright, sparkling anticipation. I have absolutely no idea what the significance of the bathroom is, or the three men who situate themselves specifcally in different areas of it. Then they come, the three seal men with eyes as round. Venetian blinds slice up the moon the tiles quiver in pale strips. Sweat prickles behind my knees, the baby-breasts are alert. I understand that she is waiting for something that is soon to come, and therefore stays up in the nights worrying or anticipating this event as she waits in her bathroom. Although it is night, I sit in the bathroom, waiting. I cannot grasp the complete meaning of her words. I picked this poem of Rita Dove because it was perhaps the most baffling to me of all her poems. Night rests like a ball of fur on my tongue. They leave behind, here at the edge of darkness. Glittering like pools of ink under moonlight, Patting their sleek bodies with their hands.
One on the bathtub edge one leans against the door. Then they come, the three seal men with eyes as roundĪs dinner plates and eyelashes like sharpened tines. Adolescence-I - Adolescence-II - Adolescence-III - The Boast - The Kadvana Kumbis Devise a Way to Marry for Love - Spy - First Kiss - Then Came. Her parents were working class, products of the Great Migration that swept. Elvira Elizabeth Dove (née Hord), was born in 1924 in Akron, Ohio. As I grew into adolescence, I was gradually permitted to apply my own variations (hot pants and Nehru-collared. Venetian blinds slice up the moon the tiles quiver in pale strips. Rita Dove When I was growing up, my mother taught me a number of skills relating. Although it is night, I sit in the bathroom, waiting.
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