Friday, August 20, 2010

Can anyone help me with these Rita Dove Poems? I need to Anaylize them.?

The first one is from the book Thomas and Beulah.



1. ''Aurora Borealis''



This far south such crippling/



Radiance. People surge/



From their homes onto the streets, certain/



This is the end,/



For it is 1943/



And they are tired.//



Thomas walks out of the movie house/



And forgets where he is./



He is drowning and/



The darkness above him/



Spits and churns.//



What shines is a thought/



Which has lost its way. Helpless/



It hangs and shivers/



Like a veil. So much//



For despair./



Thomas, go home./



2. ''Summit Beach,1921''



**don't have a copy** if you have one, I'd appriciate it.



Can anyone help me with these Rita Dove Poems? I need to Anaylize them.?network security



SUMMIT BEACH, 1921



The ***** beach jumped to the twitch



of an oil drum tattoo and a mandolin,



sweaters flying off the finest brown shoulders



this side of the world.



She sat by the fire, shawl moored



by a single fake cameo. She was cold,



thank you, she did not care to dance鈥?br> the scar on her knee winking



with the evening chill.



Papa had said don't be so fast,



you're all you've got. So she refused



to cut the wing, though she let the boys



bring her sassafras tea and drank it down



neat as a dropped hankie.



Her knee had itched in the cast



till she grew mean from bravery.



She could wait, she was gold.



When the right man smiled it would be



music skittering up her calf



like a chuckle. She could feel



the breeze in her ears like water,



like the air as a child when



she climbed Papa's shed and stepped off



the tin roof into blue,



with her parasol and invisible wings.

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