Cultural Consciousness in Rita Dove's Poetry

Abstract

This thesis is an effort to see culture on the base of Rita Dove’s poetry. It concentrates on revealingthe beauty and significance of everyday events in ordinary lives. Including poems offer the observations on both personal and public issues to the experiences of African Americans. This thesis explores the concept of cultural consciousness in Dove’s poetry. It embraces most of the word about music, economy, mobility, color, laughs, jokes, and so one equally privileged the consciousness of culture.Loves, sexuality, laughing, life with humor and irony, etc., are the common technique in black culture which is linked here with cultural consciousness. It tries to open a new window into the lives of African American and into the minds of a large segment of Black culture. It links into culture and speaks about Black freedom, justice, behave, and so on; although, Dove speaks very less about humanity but this thesis searches cultural matter. The nobility of freedom, economic, and political repression, a quest of change to improvement of black is also cultural consciousness which recounts in depth.