Poetry: Noun, literature literature in verse: literary work written in verse, in particular verse writing of high quality, great beauty, emotional sincerity or intensity, or profound insight. This is how the Encarta Online dictionary defines poetry. One thing that is definion lacks is the fact that poetry can transcend time and space and put you in that situation. One poet who uses poetry to take you to a place you have never been before is Rita Dove in her poem "Heroes." Mrs. Dove uses many different literary elements in her writings such as; alliteration, assonance, setting, word choice, and figurative language.
             Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words. It is also The matching or repetition of consonants is called alliteration, or the repeating of the same letter (or sound) at the beginning of words following each other immediately or at short intervals. Rita Dove uses this term to its max in the poem "Heroes." With lines like "So you strike her, she hits her head..." and "Although the story's starting to unravel," Mrs. Dove uses lines like this to get the words stuck in your mind, and later you just find your self repeating them in you head.
             Another literary term that Mrs. Dove uses is assonance. Assoncance is the repetition of vowel sounds. She uses this in lines like "It is too late for apologies though you go through the motions,..." The repition of the "O" sound gets you into the meter of the poem and it sets the mood. When you think of words with the "o" sounds usually go with bad occasions. Like the phrase "oh I'm so sorry" that group of words just oozes the sorry or mournful attitude. This just shows how word coice and content can envoke moods.
             One of the main factors of poetry is to be able to have people interpret what is going on in the poem itself, and it is t
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