Cozy Apologia 2003 Flashcards

Rita Dove - love and relationship, sense of place

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context

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  • hurricane floyd
  • autobiographical
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paras if given

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  • 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
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poem to comapre with

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  • Afternoons
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paras for comaprison with Afternoon

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  • 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
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para 2

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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

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para 3

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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”

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para 1

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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”

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