COSY APOLOGIA

Question 1

Poet, key themes, genre

Answer 1

Rita Dove, love/relationships - racial minorities?

Question 2

Form and structure

Answer 2

Rhyming couplets symbolic of pair of people - soul mates?

lyrical and romantic feel

Question 3

Effect of different rhyming structures in each stanza

Answer 3

-1 -> Rhyming couplets, pair of people, romantic

2-> Rhyming structure breaks to convey awkwardness at discussing previous relationships / how she wasn’t as happy in them

3-> Regular rhyme returns, less frequent than first stanza to imply more comfortable, mature, love, mundane

Question 4

Rita Dove

Answer 4

Modern poet (1952-)
First African American poet Laureate
Gives voice to black american women
Wealthy background
Transforms historic events into personal events?
Interracial marriage in 1979 to Fred (…) -> only legalised in america in 1967

Question 5

Poem context

Answer 5

Appropraites form of apologia to illuminate racial inequality and question why she should have to apologise for love

Question 6

Link to?

Answer 6

Ozymandias
Satirized and appropriated forms veil condemnation

She walks in beauty = love
Innapropriate love? love that is looked down on in societsy?