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Explication Of Dorothy Parker's One Perfect Rose
Explication of “One Perfect Rose” “One Perfect Rose” dramatizes the speaker’s love and admiration of the man who she feels passion for throughout both the first and second stanzas. The poem shifts within the last and final stanza. Within this stanza, the speaker has a different aspect for the man who she has love for. The theme of the poem is found within the last stanza and it conveys the idea of “When something is repeatedly happening, it will eventually get old”. Dorothy Parker is the speaker of this poem. The audience is considered as the readers of this poem. Dorothy is passionate for the man who she loves declaring that “My fragile leaves/his heart enclose” (6). With every rose that he gave her, his heart was enclosed with it. The love
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