The fifth grade autobiography by rita dove

The poem I chose to read is "Fifth Grade Autobiography" by Rita Dove in the "Poems of Childhood" section of our poetry book. This poem actually stuck out to me when I glanced over the section and I thought it would summarize her fifth grade experience, or at least reflect on some memorable experience.

This type of poem, actually was a portrait type of explanation, and used specific techniques in her poem.

The fifth grade autobiography by rita dove poem

In my analysis, I first found an alliteration. When the author says, "His Davy Crockett cap" in line 4, she used a repeated consonant vowel sound. I thought the emphasis in that "k" sound was used to help us visualize the cap, because in the next two lines (lines ), she says:

sits squared on his head so the raccoon tail
flounces down on the back of his sailor suit.

The author shows her brother's costume as kind of raggedy, which is how I imagined it since he wore a redneck-style raccoon cap (like Davy Crockett's).

So, that must be the reason she described the costume with those