some aspects of the lives of women have never changed. Poet Dorianne Laux writes about the female condition, and women’s desire to be married and to have a home and children. She also seems to identify through her poetry with the idea that women tend to idealize the concept of marriage and settling down and she uses her poetry to reach out to the reader who may have similar idyllic views of marriage or the married lifestyle. Though Dorianne Laux’s poem “Bird” reads very simply, it is actually a metaphor
days many families don't even eat at a dinner table, My family normally spends dinner time all over the house. Nobody really sit down at the dinner table to eat and talk and explain our thoughts and feelings about our day. In the poems "Nurse" by Dorianne Laux and "Eating together" by Li-Young Lee they both demonstrates the importance of your family and enjoying every moment that you encounter with each other. In "Eating together" the author illustrates the sadness of the father being out of their lives
Dorianne Laux has showed all elements of poetry like the theme, tone, imagery, and even the persona. “Fast Gas” has as theme that consists of talking about love. In this poem, she explains how she falls in love with whoever her future man is. The way that she explains is that she is low-keyed falling in love with whoever will be her future boyfriend. The evidence that proves this is when the author says “In a few weeks, I would fall, for the first time, in love, that man waiting patiently in my future
the people that surround an individual make a great impact on the way he or she may work. Singapore, by Mary Oliver, is about a young woman working as a custodian in an airport who although works alone, enjoys her work and the people she meets. Dorianne Laux’s What I Wouldn’t Do, introduces another young woman reviewing the jobs she has had throughout time and reflects on those that she liked and disliked. Hard Work, by Stephen Dunn, exemplifies a young boy working in a soda factory during his summer
In The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (1997), Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux determine that the “workshop should be considered a starting point for revision, a place where you can begin to gather ideas about what you need to do to make the poem what it wants to be” (187). My observance of and participation in ENG 407/507 taught me how a typical poetry workshop is structured. At the beginning of class, students would turn in poems to be workshopped, then either the