![]() This deft way with the line creates a dizzying atmosphere, which brings us back to the title and its implied feelings. My heart” is especially effective as the enjambment and line break here both end and start a sentence, but also imply another parallel, that of a heart being like a sky. This tension is broken by the following line “Anything can happen.” whose conceptual certainty is echoed in the use of a period to create an end stopped line.Ī similar push and pull occurs later in the lines: The enjambment of the above lines, with line breaks on “peeled” and “flares,” creates tension as image and simile develop. There is suggestion at work in Dove’s line break’s as well. The type of attention described here is sharp and visceral. This parallel implies subtle physical shifts, similar to one person becoming particularly aware of another. Dove takes the contextual framework of the title and aligns it right away with a variety of evocative images:įirst, the movements here of an “orange, peeled / and quartered” are said to flare “like a tulip on a wedgwood plate,” a parallel that works both on a visual and sensory level. The poem below, “Flirtation” by Rita Dove, is a good example of what I mean. Whether it’s a matter of word choice, how using the word “broken,” say, suggests its opposite, “fixed” or within the structure of a metaphor itself, the juxtaposition of two things bringing to mind a further connection, suggestion is one word for poetry’s ability to tap into language’s conspiratorial nature. Its obvious that the theme of this poem is flirting with someone or seeking interest in someone.Suggestion is a key element to poetry. The romance is shown threw her charm and her optimistic ways are shown threw the hope for a relationship. ![]() The tone for this poem is romantic and optimistic. In the last three stanzas, the speaker alludes to the idea that you can make the best out of any moment as long as you mold that instant into what makes your happy. The combination of this new relationship and of the beautiful sky makes the speaker's heart hum a tune she hasn’t heard in years, suggesting that she may have not felt this way towards anyone in a long time. She also mentions a “wedgwood plate”, which is English china, giving the illusion of delicacy, and elegance in this new bond because they believe "anything can happen." Later Dove writes about the scenery, marking the change in the sunsetting to "strewn salt across the sky." The salt is a metaphor for stars sprinkled across the night sky, and in the next line the speaker describes her feeling of happiness. Dove also uses other references to nature such as at the end of line 4, she uses the simile "flares like a tulip on a Wedgwood plate." I believe this describes the hope that can be found in their potential relationship. One can picture that the two people are diving into a relationship that can be described as something fun, fresh and almost natural, much like the orange. Rita Dove describes "an orange, peeled and quartered" as a visual for a new attraction between two individuals. ![]() ![]() This is where the title of the poem stems from while the title itself is very upfront, the imagery and figurative language in the poem is not. Throughout this poem vivid imagery of nature is used to define the action of flirting.
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