Rita Dove, Thomas and Beulah

I like the way Rita Dove was able to tell the story of her grandfather and grandmather in a very artistic and clever way. The way she was able to tell the story of her grandparents from both perspectives telling the story of how they first met, how they lived and the challenges within thereselves that they had to overcome. I love the way Rita Dove used colors to describe her Grandparents relationships and how the same colors show up throughout there lives. She uses the color yellow to show for her father and for Thomas and how she compared them but she also showed the flaws in her father that Thomas didnt have and was able to set aside his problems that he struggled with for his family, as for her father he wasnt able to. Her father would turn yellow during the winter but he did that for his whole life because he was Cheeroke and it showed that just like the color yellow was stuck with him just like the alcholism, Thomas was able to put up his yellow scarf with his Mandolin showing that he was able to choose when to associate himself with his problems. I love the was Rita Dove used poems to tell there stories and how she was very clever doing it. I had to read the poems more then once to understand some of the more suttle hints of what she was trying to get across. Also I like how she was able to control what we perseved out of the poems. Overall I enjoyed her story and would suggest it to someone to read because of how cleverly it was written out.