Rita Dove's Flirtation And I Ll Open The Window

Poem Analysis Rita Dove and Anna Swir both explore in their poetry the benefits of a change in their lifestyle. “I’ll open the Window” explains the changes and benefits to the end of a long, tiresome relationship through personification, imagery, and onomatopoeia. On the contrary, “Flirtation” by Rita Dove conveys a change from loneliness to the positive parts of having a relationship through similes, metaphors, personification, and short stanzas. In both poems, relationships are either split apart or connected, while both poems use personification and similes to either connect relationships to tragedies or to connect relationships to pleasure. In “I’ll Open the Window,” Swir explains that positive and beneficial feelings come from an end of a long, tiresome relationship. Meanwhile, in “Flirtation,” Rita Dove explains that the beginning of a relationship feels like a pleasure to go through.

In “I’ll Open the Window” by Anna Swir, the mood is very dark using statements such as “I am an animal.” and “I hear bones grind, I see our two skeletons.” These quotes from the poem contribute to the feeling that the speaker abhors the relationship between the speaker and her loved one. She also uses “the clatter of your shoes is heard no more. Now, silence.” This exemplifies the feeling that the speaker does not want her previously loved one to enter into her place of loneliness. In contrast, “Flirtation” speaks about the positive aspects of the start to a relationship. “Flirtation” exemplifies a happy mood. “My heart is humming a tune I haven’t heard in years!” and “There are ways to make of the moment.” both signify a happy mood and conveys to us that the speaker is entering a new form of her life where she can finally feel happy about the pleasure of being in a