Ethen Nolan

English

15 August, 05:42

What structural element is apparent in this poem?

O repeating lines

O rhyme scheme

regular meter

O stanzas

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Read the poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors" by Rita Dove.

This is for the woman with one black wing

perched over her eyes: lovely Frida, erect

among parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant,

who painted herself a present-

wildflowers entwining the plaster corset

her spine resides in, that flaming pillar - --

this priestess in the romance of mirrors.

Each night she lay down in pain and rose

to the celluloid butterflies of her Beloved Dead,

Lenin and Marx and Stalin arrayed at the footstead.

And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting

like children along the graveled walks of the garden,

Diego's

love a skull in the circular window

of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow.