Gender Inequality In Rita Dove's Daystar

Rita Dove’s imagery and writing style made this poem fairly clear. It tells the story of one woman’s typical day. The mother is exhausted by each day. She barely gets a rest. I did a bit of research on this poem, and I found out that Dove published “Daystar” in a collection of poems in 1985. It was the year that caught my attention. Current society prides itself on gender inequality, though it is obvious to anyone who looks that is not a reality, yet it has been getting better. The women in 1985 had more freedom than those in 1885. The women in 1885 no doubt had it better than those in 1085. While I understand that this inequality is still a huge problem, I can’t help but wonder what Rita Dove was thinking when she was writing “Daystar”. It