All Hallows EvePoem By Dorothea Tanning

Presentation By Evan Holland

biographical Info• Married surrealist painter

Max Ernst who influenced her to become part of the surrealist movement in World War 2.

• She created the highest annual literary prize in the country.

Biographical cont’d

• In 1941, now in New York, she met the art dealer, Julien Levy, and his surrealist friends, refugees from Nazi occupied France. By 1956 Max and Dorothea had chosen to live and work thenceforth in France. Though Paris was headquarters, they preferred the country quiet lure in Touraine and Provence. Max Ernst died on April 1, 1976 and Dorothea faced a solitary future. Go home said the paint tubes, the canvases, the brushes. Returning to the United States in the late 1970s, and still painting

Orginazation/structure/form

Ballad

1 stanza

14 lines

Poems speaker: a newlywed wife

Be perfect, make it otherwise.Yesterday is torn in shreds.Lightning’s thousand sulfur eyesRip apart the breathing beds.Hear bones crack and pulverize.Doom creeps in on rubber treads.Countless overwrought housewives, Minds unraveling like threads,Try lipstick shades to tranquilizeFears of age and general dreads.Sit tight, be perfect, swat the spies,Don’t take faucets for fountainheads.Drink tasty antidotes. OtherwiseYou and the werewolf: newlyweds.

imagery• “Hear bones crack and pulverize”• http://www.e-missions.net/cybersurgeons/?/skel_teacher/

• “Doom creeps on in rubber treads”• http://defensivedrivinghabits.blogspot.com/2011/08/

stupid-or-not-driving-with-your-foot.html• “Drink tasty antidotes”• http://www.thegreenhead.com/2009/02/health-energy-

potion-energy-drink-for-gamers.php• “Rip apart the breathing beds”

• https://www.flickr.com/photos/mcmumpitz/5182641176/

Poetic/literary terms

• End rhyme it makes the rhythm of the poem flow together.

• Personification this is put in to show that what is attacking is human.

• sensory details these are put in to share with us the atmosphere she feels.

Be perfect, make it otherwise.Yesterday is torn in shreds.Lightning’s thousand sulfur eyesRip apart the breathing beds.Hear bones crack and pulverize.Doom creeps in on rubber treads.Countless overwrought housewives, Minds unraveling like threads,Try lipstick shades to tranquilizeFears of age and general dreads.Sit tight, be perfect, swat the spies,Don’t take faucets for fountainheads.Drink tasty antidotes. OtherwiseYou and the werewolf: newlyweds.

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Literal meaning

A woman is attacked by a monster but tries to ignore it.

Be perfect, make it otherwise.Yesterday is torn in shreds.Lightning’s thousand sulfur eyesRip apart the breathing beds.Hear bones crack and pulverize.Doom creeps in on rubber treads.Countless overwrought housewives, Minds unraveling like threads,Try lipstick shades to tranquilizeFears of age and general dreads.Sit tight, be perfect, swat the spies,Don’t take faucets for fountainheads.Drink tasty antidotes. OtherwiseYou and the werewolf: newlyweds.

Figuritave meaning

• A newlywed wife is being beat by her husband but tries to hide it from her neighbors friends and family by covering it up.

Be perfect, make it otherwise.Yesterday is torn in shreds.Lightning’s thousand sulfur eyesRip apart the breathing beds.Hear bones crack and pulverize.Doom creeps in on rubber treads.Countless overwrought housewives, Minds unraveling like threads,Try lipstick shades to tranquilizeFears of age and general dreads.Sit tight, be perfect, swat the spies,Don’t take faucets for fountainheads.Drink tasty antidotes. OtherwiseYou and the werewolf: newlyweds.

Authors purpose

• Dorothea wrote this to try and tell people that when something is wrong don’t try to hide it from loved ones

Theme

• Don’t take it when a monsters in your life acknowledge that you need to be rid of them.

citations

• http://www.dorotheatanning.org/dorothea-tanning.php