(ThyBlackMan.com) Rita Dove is one of the most celebrated poets of our time. As the youngest person to serve as Poet Laureate ...

What a jagged image we use for women who achieve greatly, defining accomplishment in terms of the barrier rather than the triumph. There she is up where the air is thin, where men still outnumber ...

Cozy Apologia by Rita Dove, reprinted by permission of W.W. Norton and Company Inc. Note: this poem is included for reference purposes, please refer to your anthology ...

The Virginia Festival of the Book, an annual celebration of reading Virginia Humanities hosts under the umbrella of the Virginia Center for the Book, kicks off March 20. The festival, which runs ...

Recipient of many of the nation’s highest cultural honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the NAACP Great American Artist Award, a Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, the Duke Ellington Lifetime ...

The poem has a dreamy, wandering tone Dove uses digression (deviation from the central theme), flitting from subject to subject in a dreamlike way. The use of dashes in each verse interrupts the ...

You can discover a lot about a poem by comparing it to one by another author that deals with a similar subject. You could compare features such as theme, form, structure, rhythm, language and ...

You will need to research the poet’s background to discover answers to these questions. But if you do write about a poem and its context, be careful to include only details that reveal something ...

Biography and memory: poem is a first-person narrative. It may be dedicated to the poet's husband, suggesting it could be autobiographical. 'for Fred', 'the glossy blue/ My pen exudes, drying ...