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Pity The Beautiful By: Dana Gioia. PowerPoint by: Brianna Clary. Pity the beautiful, a t he dolls, and the dishes, b t he babes with big daddies c g ranting their wishes. b Pity the pretty boys, d the hunks, and Apollos, e the golden lads whom f
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Pity The BeautifulBy: Dana Gioia PowerPoint by: Brianna Clary
Pity the beautiful, a the dolls, and the dishes, b the babes with big daddies c granting their wishes. b Pity the pretty boys, d the hunks, and Apollos, e the golden lads whom f success always follows. e The hotties, the knock-outs, g the tens out of ten, h the drop-dead gorgeous I the great leading men. h Pity the faded, j the bloated, the blowsy, k the paunchy Adonis l Whose luck’s gone lousy. k Pity the gods, m no longer divine. n pity the night o the stars lose their shine. n
RHYME SCHEME RHYME SCHEME- When a poem has rhyme. There are many different types of rhyme scheme. Pity the beautiful, a the dolls, and the dishes,b the babes with big daddies c granting their wishes.b
IMAGERY- creates an image in your head. Pity the beautiful, The dolls, and the dishes, The babes with big daddies granting their wishes This creates images in my mind. When I read this I think of little girls playing tea with their dolls, and them with their dads, dads doing whatever the girls want them to do.
Pity the gods, no longer divine. pity the night the stars lose their shine.
MICHAEL DANA GIOIA Michael Dana Gioia is an American writer, critic and poet. He retired early from his career as a corporate executive at General Foods to write full-time. From January 29, 2003, until January 22, 2009, he was chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the U.S. government's arts agency, and has worked to revitalize an organization that had suffered bitter controversies about the nature of grants to artists in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In August 2011, Gioia became Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. He has sought to encourage jazz, which he calls the only uniquely American form of art, to promote reading and performance of Shakespeare and to increase the number of Americans reading literature. Before taking the NEA post, Gioia was a resident of Santa Rosa, California, and before that, of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.