![]() She probably knows the men personally maybe they are family or friends. The “tiles quiver in pale strips” (3) represent her fear of what is coming-she knows these rapes are coming. The speaker refers to her “baby-breasts” (2), meaning that she is most likely underage. In this poem, three men rape the speaker in the bathroom. Night rests like a ball of fur on my tongue. They leave behind, here at the edge of darkness. Glittering like pools of ink under moonlight, Patting their sleek bodies with their hands. One on the bathtub edge one leans against the door. Then they come, the three seal men with eyes as roundĪs dinner plates and eyelashes like sharpened tines. Venetian blinds slice up the moon the tiles quiver in pale strips. Sweat prickles behind my knees, the baby-breasts are alert. Dove has received many awards and honors for her beautiful poetry, and currently is a professor at the University of Virginia.Īlthough it is night, I sit in the bathroom, waiting. Dove won the Pulitzer Prize for her work Thomas and Beulah in 1986 in which she wrote about her grandparents’ relationship and memories living in early 20 th century Ohio. With The Yellow House on the Corner and other works, Dove has been highly commended for her sense of history, lyricism, and political awareness. Dove’s first poetry collection The Yellow House on the Corner was published in 1980. She was an excellent student, graduating high school as a Presidential Scholar and eventually moving on to Miami University of Ohio as a National Merit Scholar. Rita Dove was born in 1952 in Akron, Ohio.
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