Just when hope withers, the visa is granted.
The door opens to a street like in the movies, clean of people, of cats; except it is your street you are leaving. A visa has been granted, 'provisionally'-a fretful word. The windows you have closed behind you are turning pink, doing what they do every dawn. Here it's gray. The door to the taxicab waits. This suitcase, the saddest object in the world. Well, the world's open. And now through the windshield the sky begins to blush as you did when your mother told you what it took to be a woman in this life. In Dove’s poem, Exit, Dove’s language makes the poem seem desolate but welcomed. The way she say certain items, like the windows, street, and suitcase, show how desolate it will be to leave the place you have grownup in, but it also shows what the risks are in chasing their dreams. Dove characterizes opportunity as a saddening but yet encouraging thing to chase through her use of imagery. In Dove’s poem, she is emphasizing the path of opportunity. She states, “Just when hope withers, the visa is granted.” This gives a sense of ambiguous imagery. With this, Dove is replacing visa with opportunity to show how the phrase “the door of opportunity” is limited (visa is defined to let a person stay in a country for a specific period of time). Throughout the poem, Dove uses precise imagery to state how hard it is to leave your home in order to chase opportunity. It states “the door opens to a street like in the movies…except it is your street you are leaving”, making the speaker look back on their home and what they are giving up in order to chase this once in a lifetime opportunity, and continues to state this by saying “The windows you have closed behind you are turning pink, doing what they do every dawn. Here it's gray… This suitcase, the saddest object in the world." proving that it is going to be a difficult time to adapt to the situation. As the poem progresses, the imagery starts to change. At this point, it gives how the speaker actually feels about leaving. The speaker uses the sky in order to compare to the speaker's feeling towards leaving. As the speaker starts out with, “Well, the world’s open,” it shows that the speaker is ready to embrace the world of opportunities. As the speaker is embracing this fact, “the sky begins to blush as you did when your mother told you what it took to be a woman in this life.” showing the joy of the speaker to explore the endless opportunities of the vast world. The imagery here gives a feeling of satisfaction and acceptance of the speaker “going for the opportunity".
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9/21/2015 02:18:59 am
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ben
9/23/2015 12:03:26 am
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