Dorothy Parker's A Dream Lies Dead

Dorothy parker is a famous poet who is known for her sad poems. She was born in west end, New Jersey august 22, 1893. Dorothy did not have the ideal childhood experience that most kids have. Her parents J. Henry and Elizabeth Rothschild died when she was just a young. She did not like her father and accused him for sexually abusing Dorothy. She also suffered from depression, was an alcoholic, and had suicidal thoughts. Her dark and gloomy life really inspired her style in her poems. At the age of 22 Dorothy took a job as an editor at vogue and for other newspapers and magazines company; that was where Dorothy would put some of her poems for the people to read. One of her famous poem “A Dream Lies Dead” is about the death of a dream and her grief over its death, this poem will show us how Dorothy incorporates pieces of her life and the way she grew up in this poem In the first
The line that states “Whenever one drifted petal leaves the tree-“, is a metaphor, she is comparing a dream with a petal from a tree which drifts from a tree. In other words a dream is slowly fading away like how a petal falls from a tree. The second two lines reads “A proudly waitful of fecundity- / One little loveliness can no more;” here Dorothy uses the word “ fecundity” which means fruitfulness and fertility, the ability to produce abundant healthy growth. Stating that the petal might bloom healthy and proud, but it drifts away and its loveliness is lost. Finally the last two lines of the second stanza reads “And so must Beauty bow her imperfect head / Because a dream has joined the wistful dead!”. Beauty is being personified a person who acknowledges the imperfectness of the world. A dream is a thing of beauty, something which helps in bringing balance to the world and the death of a dream reinforces the imperfectness that exists in the