Summer - Anti-Father - To Bed - A Father out Walking on the Lawn - The Sailor in Africa - Early Morning on the Tel Aviv-Haifa Freeway - Why I Turned Vegetarian - Eastern European Eclogues - Flirtation - Exeunt the Viols - The Left-Handed Cellist. |a The Son - Corduroy Road - O - The Fish in the Stone - The Ants of Argos - Pithos - Nestor's Bathtub - The Hill Has Something to Say - The Copper Beech - Tou Wan Speaks to Her Husband, Liu Sheng - Catherine of Alexandria - Catherine of Siena - Receiving the Stigmata - Boccaccio: The Plague Years - Fiammetta Breaks Her Peace - November for Beginners - Reading Holderlin on the Patio with the Aid of a Dictionary - Shakespeare Say - Three Days of Forest, a River, Free - Banneker - In the Bulrush - Delft - Ike - Agosta the Winged Man and Rasha the Black Dove - At the German Writers Conference in Munich - Grape Sherbet - Roses - Sunday Night at Grandfather's - Centipede - My Father's Telescope - Song. Planning the Perfect Evening - Augustus Observes the Sunset - Wake - Back - Belinda's Petition - The House Slave - David Walker (1785-1830) - The Abduction - The Transport of Slaves From Maryland to Mississippi - Pamela - Someone's Blood - Cholera - The Slave's Critique of Practical Reason - Kentucky, 1833 - Adolescence - I - Adolescence - II - Adolescence - III - The Boast - The Kadava Kumbis Devise a Way to Marry for Love - Spy - First Kiss - Then Came Flowers - Pearls - Nexus - Notes from a Tunisian Journal - The Sahara Bus Trip - For Kazuko - Beauty and the Beast - His Shirt - Great Uncle Beefheart. Lee, In a Dream - "Teach Us to Number Our Days" - Nigger Song: An Odyssey - Five Elephants - Geometry - Champagne - Night Watch - The Secret Garden - 1963 - D.C. |a Introduction / Rita Dove - This Life - The Bird Frau - Robert Schumann, Or: Musical Genius Begins with Affliction - Happenstance - Small Town - The Snow King - Sightseeing - Upon Meeting Don L. |a "This work was originally published as three separate volumes: Thomas and Beulah, Museum, and The yellow house on the corner, all by Carnegie-Mellon University Press, Pittsburgh"-T.p. Dove wants to audience to find a sense of innocence in their life in order to still be a child at heart.|a DLC |b eng |c DLC |d EXW |d TXX |d MLX |d TAI |d JO2 |d BAKER |d BTCTA |d YDXCP |d NTE |d UBC |d ZCU |d FCX Dove uses the topic of innocence to conclude the theme that people should have innocence in their life, because they will never know to view the world from a child's view. This however changes with Linda's comment about boys, which eventually makes her wonder about adolescence. The friendly tone adds to the innocence of children, saying that children are always playful and their view of the world is different from the way the "streetlights ping" and turn "into miniature suns". It is as though the author is trying to relive the happy memory before learning about being an adolescent. The way she says "tickling grasses and whispered" and "A firefly whirred near my ear" shows that its a friendly attitude. The way Dove presents the poem shows the innocent mind of children. This is the start of letting the speaker wonder about becoming a teenager or adolescence. Linda adds the comment in order to show the child's innocence, because the speaker may not want to know about boys or how a boy's lips are. However, the girls are not talking about relationships they are basically playing and whispering to each other. At this time, Linda says, "A boy's lips are soft, As soft as a baby's skin," which is the start of introducing a lesson about relationships. The child is playing with her friend or sister when the grandmother, Linda, shows up. The speaker of the poem may be unclear, but it can be inferred that the speaker is a child. As Dove presents, innocence is something that is best kept in people all around, so they can see the world differently. This poem reflects the innocence of a child before turning into the change of the century: becoming a teenager. The poem reveals her childhood memories before the change of her life has started.
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