Cozy Apologia 2003 Flashcards
Rita Dove - love and relationship, sense of place
context
- hurricane floyd
- autobiographical
paras if given
- explores the normality of love - a defence of normal love
- romanticized loev when she is younger
- as she grows up realises love isn’t as glamorous as she thought
poem to comapre with
- Afternoons
paras for comaprison with Afternoon
- both descrobe ordinary love, everyday
- however Cozy is hopeful hopeful from beginning and happy at ened, Afternoon is sad throighout
- both explore the affect of growing on relationships/love
para 2
hopeful:
- “I could choose any hero”
- “shooting arrows to the heart”
- “dappled mare”
- “standing in silver”
- “chain mail glinting”
- “we’re content”
- “fill this stolen time with you”
- cylical sturcture, focuses on love, even if not her imagined scenario still happy
para 3
affact of growing on relationship/love:
- “chainmail glinting to set me free”
- “shooting artows ot the heart”
- “dappled mare”, ambic pentameter in first stanza
- “daydreams… of teenage crushes on worthless boys”
- “only talent was to kiss senseless”
- “fall short of the Divine”
- “nothing else will do”
para 1
eveyrday love:
- “we’e content but fall short of the divine”
- “embarrasign this happiness”
- “wo’s satisifed simply with what’s good for us”
- “and yet nothing else will do… i fill this stolen time with you”