Kim Addonizio

Schylar Hardin Paper 2 The Insatiable Desire of a Woman In Kim Addonizio’s “What Do Women Want?” she uses the mind of a women to exhibit the societal expectations and constraints of many women. Through the use of repetition, sentence structure, and a sarcastic tone, Addonizio is able to reveal what women truly want: to not be characterized and streamlined by others. The constant repetition of “I want” reflects a trait of desire and of lacking personal fulfillment with others and situations that…

more to the story than what meets the eye! The sonnet “First Poem for You” by Kim Addonizio is a riveting piece of poetry that uses symbolization to help readers understand the narrator’s emotions and feelings towards her partner. Visual and tactile imagery used within this poem help explain the meaning of the poem. The theme is longevity and the true meaning of a relationship. In “First Poem for You,” Addonizio creates a fictional character that is in love with a man that has permanent…

Do you like red dresses? Does the dancing lady symbolize how you see yourself? Does she represent how you’re feeling? Perhaps she represents how you wish to see yourself, or how you hope others perceive you. In her poem “What Do Women Want,” Kim Addonizio uses a red dress to symbolically communicate her desire for independence and confidence. The iconic color red also comes up as a symbol in The Scarlet Letter, and in the song “Lady in Red.” Though the color red appears in these three works of…

It is a pleasure to scrutinize the work of both Philip Levine “what work is” and Kim Addonizio “Dead Girl.” In both articles, the theme of youth and despair are explored by the writers as they analyze aspects of the lives of young girls and a young man. They spoke of the struggles that they go through as well as their feelings towards this life and how they handle it. They look into how the authors’ view on relationships or lack of it, and how it affects a young man and young girls in the…

and it’s generally not something a person can simply choose to feel or not feel. The permanence of tattoos compared to love’s uncertainty has a great effect on the overall theme of Kim Addonizio’s “First Poem for You” and the relationship between the two ideas builds throughout the sonnet. In the first lines, Addonizio writes “I like to touch your tattoos in complete / darkness, when I can’t see them” (1-2). “Darkness” could represent how she feels about the relationship or perhaps even an…

Love can be used to manipulate a person’s feelings to get what they want. Love can be very dangerous. It may lead to fear, misery, jealously, obsession, or loneliness. In “First Poem for You” by Kim Addonizio implies that “such permanence is terrifying”, meaning that the speaker in the poem knows that her lover’s tattoo will always be there, but she fears that their love would not be permanent. That’s when the speaker points out “I like to touch your…

Everyone in their lifetime have experienced love, whether it is family love, friendship love, romantic love, or conceptual love. In the poem, "Most Like an Arch This Marriage" by John Ciardi defines love through showing commitment, trust, and respect to built a healthy and strong relationship for one another. Love is everlasting and unconditionally satisfying to be with a person or thing you cherish deeply. We all search for love, we are all dedicated to find what completes our lonely hearts in…