Theme Essay On The Poem 'Sunday Greens' By Rita Dove

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Theme Essay At countless points in my life, I feel as though I have made the wrong decisions and I am not living my life to its fullest potential. I sense that I did not achieve my long-term goals and aspirations in life by the cause of me being too distracted going after short-term goals that mean nothing to me anymore. Such as not studying for tests due to the fact that I had a game to attend to, or not getting involved in school activities because I wanted to stay home and watch television. Therefore, I did not reach my goals, since I was busy caring about other matters. In Rita Dove’s Poem “Sunday Greens,” I strongly believe the theme is “In society, people often do not achieve their goals and long to change their life.” I feel as though this is the theme of the poem on the grounds that Dove uses a variety of literary devices, such as similes and metaphors, all describing change. The author makes the theme known by illustrating a shift in the first stanza, skipping the second, and to the third stanza. Dove, in the first stanza, writes about all the things her character wants in …show more content…
I have come to the conclusion that “Sunday Greens” has been altered from the common cliché “Sunday Blues.” “Sunday Blues” is a phrase that one would use when he or she is sad about the weekend ending. The phrase would commonly be used on a Sunday afternoon or evening, when the realization of the weekend ending is being discovered. Coming up with this accusation, I have figured out that modifying the term was the first step for the character in the poem to change her life. By simply changing a commonly used phrase, it was one step closer for the woman to revise her dull, tedious life, for the better. Changing the term represents the woman breaking free from the handcuffs that is her dreary, uneventful life and gives the new phrase a fresh, hopeful look that will illustrate a new, happy