Problem: Make a response to this discussion post:
When I read the poem "Daystar" by Rita Dove I initially reacted angrily because I felt empathy for the mother/wife and believed she deserved better. I would describe the tone as stoical. For example, when the narrator said she was "pure nothing in the middle of the day" she wasn't really complaining, but rather figuratively stating what she was. My take away from the work is that it seemed to be cleverly constructed as a free verse poem while telling the story of a woman shackled to her daily life. The contrast of the poem in this way was interesting, there was no "routine/pattern followed, yet the poem's content focuses on those routine elements of the mother/wife's life.