The Devil in Rita Dove
Why does Rita Doves Poem about the pains of being a Mother and Wife use the Allison of Venus and the devil as it's title? Coincidence is not likely if one does a look at the themes of the poem.
The name Daystar, which can refer to the symbols of Venus, that of of love and passion, and Satan, as the force that enslaves the indivdiuals is a perfect fit for this poem.
Rita Doves women in the past, has fallen into love with a man, a man that that she has started a family with. Both should be about love and happiness, instead the poem is about being oppressed because of passion.
Sex, to the character in the poem is not a joy, not a symbol of love, but an oppresive act
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Similarly, a mother and children usually symbolize love and affection. Here the charater of the poem just wants piece and quite, a moment to be by herself.
" QUOTE" Rita Dove has made the chcartes normal life filled with love becom an over lasting torment, a kind of living hell that only the Daystar could devise.
This unhappiness with the condition of love, this oppressive existance is made all the worse by societies Jutapostion of what is supposed to be and what actually is. A mother, her moral oblication in society has been often extressed to love her children and raise them. At this time to reject ones children, to feel even indifference for them was by many seen as a sin . . .
Why does Rita Doves Poem about the pains of being a Mother and Wife use the Allison of Venus and the devil as it's title? Coincidence is not likely if one does a look at the themes of the poem.
The name Daystar, which can refer to the symbols of Venus, that of of love and passion, and Satan, as the force that enslaves the indivdiuals is a perfect fit for this poem.
Rita Doves women in the past, has fallen into love with a man, a man that that she has started a family with. Both should be about love and happiness, instead the poem is about being oppressed because of passion.
Sex, to the character in the poem is not a joy, not a symbol of love, but an oppresive act
" quote"
Similarly, a mother and children usually symbolize love and affection. Here the charater of the poem just wants piece and quite, a moment to be by herself.
" QUOTE" Rita Dove has made the chcartes normal life filled with love becom an over lasting torment, a kind of living hell that only the Daystar could devise.
This unhappiness with the condition of love, this oppressive existance is made all the worse by societies Jutapostion of what is supposed to be and what actually is. A mother, her moral oblication in society has been often extressed to love her children and raise them. At this time to reject ones children, to feel even indifference for them was by many seen as a sin . . .
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