Feminist Theme

Laurence Paul Dunbar

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Feminist Theme

Alice

KNOW you, winds that blow your course
Down the verdant valleys,
That somewhere you must, perforce,
Kiss the brow of Alice?
When her gentle face you find,
Kiss it softly, naughty wind.

Roses waving fair and sweet
Thro' the garden alleys,
Grow into a glory meet
For the eye of Alice;
Let the wind your offering bear
Of sweet perfume, faint and rare.

Lily holding crystal dew
In your pure white chalice,
Nature kind hath fashioned you
Like the soul of Alice;
It of purest white is wrought,
Filled with gems of crystal thought.

Analysis

In “Alice,” Dunbar, Paul Laurence describes the physical and spiritual beauty of a woman, whose name Alice. The author use personification tone, by the conversation with the wind, to describe his purpose. The woman in his poem has a perfect beauty; not only from the appearance, but from her heart.

By Dunbar personification tone, Alice appeared with her beauty that the “winds that blow” to see her. He describes to the winds about her beauty and tells the “winds” to be nice to her. By consonance, he describes the gentleness of her face. Furthermore, the woman in “Alice” has a very classic pretty.

A Little of Fun!

Yes! This is Fun.

No More Stress,

Break Time! Break Time!

By his metaphor, Alice was compared with the most beauty flowers such as “roses” and “lily” which are symbolized for author’s love and Alice’s purity. The rhythm through “Alice” was very gentle, and the poem just flows slowly. By reading this poem, people emerge with the wind to fly slowly to meet Alice. As the author, the readers go in to ecstasy with Alice’s “sweet perfume, faint and rare.” Not only have the physical beauty, Alice soul is like the “purest white.”

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By the metaphor and imagery tone, Dunbar leads the auditors see, feel, and smell Alice’s beauty. By Alice, Dunbar wants to describe all the women’s pretty. To him, all woman in the world have the same beauty no matter their physical appearance, rich or poor, and what their nationalities. Woman was born with her vocation to be a mother and symbol of pretty.

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