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Back to category: English Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. Day star Marchon Van Vooren English 1B mtwth 8-1010 6-30-03 Essay # 2 Daystar by: Rita Dove Daystar was written by a great woman named Rita Dove. Rita was an American writer born in Akron, Ohio. She then graduated from Miami University in Ohio in 1973 and also from the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1977. Rita Dove taught at Arizona State University from 1981 until 1989. This fantastic woman also served in the United States services in 1993 to 1995. Dove also was the first African American writer to become poet laureate. In a majority of her poems she shows how such moments such as daily lives make up individuals’ history and add to the experiences that human beings share. Much of Dove’s work concentrates on revealing the beauty and the significance of everyday events in ordinary lives. She used this idea on a very splendid poem in my eyes called, Daystar written in 1952. Ms. Dove used the tone of this poem as well as the diction of words to create a unique f... Posted by: Margaret Rowden Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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