ENGL 112 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Emily Dickinson, Rita Dove, Glossary Of Partner Dance Terms
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American smooth by rita dove seeks to convey to the reader the importance of taking advantage of beautiful moments in her descriptions of the elegance the human body can achieve through dance. She also reminds the reader that accepting this elegance will be temporary and that to achieve this elegance a degree of restraint must be practiced. These ideas prepare the reader for certain concepts in some of emily dickinson"s poems, not necessarily by agreeing with them but by introducing and stimulating thought. Dove"s beliefs concerning control and freedom oppose rather than complement those of. Emily dickinson in much madness" while dickinson"s attitudes towards seizing the moment and fulfilling potentials in after great pain" and because i could not stop for death" and. The brain is wider than the sky" agree with those that dove holds in american smooth. The reader is left stunned by dove"s expression of the fluidity and beauty that the human body can achieve through dance.
