Fifth Grade Autobiography Poem By Rita Dove

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A character’s attempt to recapture the past is important in many poems and stories. " Fifth Grade Autobiography" by Rita Dove, succeeds at recapturing the poet's past. The poem's speaker is a the author and the addresse is the audience. The subject of the poem is one of remembrance. The tone is childlike, innocent and sadness and the theme is reminiscent. We discover the poet is describing a particular memory that shows reverence and longing for her grandfather, who is dead at the time she writes the poem. Dove recaptures memories as a child on a particular day and her interaction with her brother and grandparents especially her grandfather with great detail. The author recaptures the memory in the poem by looking at an old photo and describing, the things that were taking time at the place of the picture not exactly what is pticutred.. …show more content…

In, this autobiography she must have stumbled across a photo of herself at the age of four years old and she began to think of memories that surrounded the time of which the picture was taken. Dove writes "I was four in this photograph fishing/with my grandparents at a lake in Michigan", the author recapture's a fishing trip she shared with her Brother and grandparents but she does it in such a way that you can paint a visual picture in your mind. Based on the author's descriptions of her fishing trip with her grandfather, you can tell that she more than likely had a great relationship with her grandparents and she must have been really close to her grandfather. Dove writes about her grandfather in odd details that may stand out to her or is associated with the memories she has of her

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