Dorothy Parker's One Perfect Rose

The idea of receiving chocolates and roses from someone you admire might be a fantasy for countless woman. However, for Dorothy Parker, it’s the exact opposite. There are several clichés that accompany falling in love and receiving roses is one of them. In other words, there are countless unique ways to show your admiration for someone other than picking up some roses. Although the poem “One Perfect Rose” is rather short, it is overflowing with symbolism and imagery which can be efficiently expressed through a collage.

The poem “One Perfect Rose” discusses the themes of love and admiration and essentially what actions to avoid when properly conveying your admiration for a woman. For several women like Dorothy Parker, roses are too cliché, after all, we do live in a world where
On the other hand, the bottom half of the collage demonstrates an unhappy woman who has in her possession some items that are typical for a woman to receive from her significant other. To be more specific, perfume, a teddy bear, chocolates, and roses are placed beside this unhappy woman. These items made an appearance in this collage to demonstrate the overused items woman receive from their significant other. In this collage, there is a happy couple holding a heart, the couple is black and white because it signifies how dull the woman truly feels after receiving roses. With that being said, the rest of the collage is full of color to demonstrate how the woman truly feels. There is a limousine displayed in the dead center of the collage to demonstrate the importance of its mention in the poem. It is clear that Dorothy did not literally desire a limousine, she is trying to express that roses are gray and there are higher quality gifts that can be given. With that being said, next to the limousine there are lips with the words “Ah, no it’s always my luck to get one perfect rose.”