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Acid stains you; drugs cause cramp.
Gas smells awful; you might as well live” (“Suicide” 2).
This is often considered the most famous poem of Dorothy Parker among her over 400 poems that she composed during her lifetime. What does this say about an author who thinks and feels this way, who expresses her every thought in her poetry? Words were nearly her whole life and she expressed her ideas through these words. Since she sold her first poem at the age of twenty-one, she has been influencing minds with her ideas and thoughts. Dorothy Parker led a very interesting life with her poetry and writings being a major entity, pouring her heart and soul, her thoughts and dreams into her writing therefore being a strong influence on American literature.
Parker was born to J. Henry and Eliza Rothschild on August 22, 1893 in West End, New Jersey. She didn’t have a very happy childhood for her mother died when she was very young and she endured a poor relationship with her father and stepmother. Writing was her passion ever since she was a little girl and it was also her escape. After having many of her works pub
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Davidson explains that in this poem “humor constitutes the female speaker’s first level of resistance to her lover attempt the impose upon her a tyranny of privacy” (Davidson 769). In this way she changes the perception of love and consequently she recreated modern love.
In her writings Parker brought forth struggles of the sexes and classes, she spoke of her concerns “Primarily with the emotional and intellectual landscape of women. Sadly she passed away of a heart attack on June seventh, 1967 at the Hotel Volney in New York City at the “Ripe old age of seventy-three. In example of her wit and depressive outlook, the poem “Plea” looks at her depiction of gross inequality in this relationship of “Modern love.
Throughout her life Parker’s family and friends have tolerated her peculiar behavior like her many fetishes.
Throughout her childhood Parker dreamed of being a writer and since 1916 she did an extraordinary job. She spoke of controversial topics, which she did a tremendous job of. She is now remembered and celebrated several years after her death. Being one of the only members of her Algonquin table to be remembered throughout centuries. / And so the intimate places of your heart, / kneeling you bared to
me, and in confession. Her most used subjects were of love and death, which were also her obsessions. She is thought of as a huge influence on American literature and modern love because of this.
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