DELINEATION OF VITUPERATIVE RACIAL PREJUDICE AND UNENDING SUFFERINGS OF AFRICANS IN RITA DOVES POEMS

Abstract [English]

As one among the well renowned author of short stories, numerous volumes of brilliant poetry and a National Book Award winner among fifteen modern poets. Any academic familiar with the conference circuit will know the importance of her Cosmopolitan poem. The thing to remember is not to overextend credit cards and suitcases with poems the readers may not read, suits they cannot wear, and liquor one will drink. Rita Dove's Cozy Apologia (1992), however, would fit quite nicely into an overhead compartment bag.' A brilliant volume of poetic concept originally written for Essence magazine, Dove's latest work offers a theory of life Cosmopolitan poem and movement that communicates to readers across the globe the insights she herself has gained on off the road. She points out, for example, that itineraries are subject to change: Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have Cosmopolitan poem, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without humiliation, we must be ready to change that as well. (24)