Dorothy Parker One Perfect Rose Research Assignment

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One Perfect Rose
Introduction
A recent analysis of poetry works has encompassed “One Perfect Rose” in their debates on the symbol, rhythm as well as voice. The analyses have shown that modern scholars and anthologists finally appreciate the accessible Poetry of Parker. “One Perfect Rose” is among the works of Parker that deserves the gratitude. The poem was written in 1923 (Parker, 104). Its three stanzas employ a discrepancy of the approach of the “bait and switch,” largely fit in the Roaring 20s period of forceful advertising as well as the commodification of womanliness. The first two quatrains calm us with a quiet tone in addition to important “perfect” iambic stricture. Also, the two stanzas present the rose in its “faultless” emblematic form as a “good luck charm” for love. In each of the verses, the last line, “One Perfect Rose” has three deep stresses as well as one light stress. In other words, the last line in every stanza has a key trochee that is surrounded by two strong stresses. This paper intends to investigate if the speaker in this poem is simply a gold digger or materialistic.
In the poem, we have an interruption of sound that attracts our focus on the symbolic flower. This interruption is clear on the third verse, where the speaker talks about “One Perfect Limousine.” The expensive vehicle becomes preferable to the flower. In simple words, something that suggests money replaces the flower as a sign of affection. Maybe the speaker can be reduced to a gold-digger unless we reflect other related issues. Despite the achievements during the 1920s, the female had no hopes of earning as much cash as their male counterparts. They had to get married and depend on their husbands regarding finances. Research has revealed that the writer alludes to financial strain in this decade in most of his works. Furthermore, most of the poems that were written by women of this era show the conflict of modern love with predictable romance.
The writer has made it clear, that affection in the form of out-and-out dedication was difficult to come across. Financial securities as well as conventional love that was offered by marriage were unreliable or simply not attainable. As a result, more practical, if pessimistic, responses, as well as symbols, were called for. Unlike some of the speakers in the works of Parker, this one is not a victim. The pessimism in the poem shows that the speaker will reject the impractical love in courtesy of a gift of something that is more practical. That is why she prefers to be given a limousine and not just a symbolic flower. In the course of substituting the symbolic rose instead of redefining it, the poem de-romanticizes the passionate love. This is characteristic of the fundamental nature of modernization.
On the other hand, the modernization of Parker’s poem comes in the structure of the conservative metrics printed in bulk circulation newspapers as well as magazines instead experimental free verse found in “little publications,” and thus has been seen as the main issue of this era. It is, however, important to guess the motivation or foundation for the form of this poem. The writer of this poem has made several references of stories, poems as well as essays she had read in the 19th century. Parker uses cynicism as well as a symbol to give his work a sharper as well a modern edge. She has thus de-romanticized the romance of lyric.
The poem, “One Perfect Rose” speaks of a woman who is not contented with what her lover is doing. She does not want a single rose every day. The speaker wants something practical. The flower has simply become a cliché to her. She now wants a limousine. We cannot say that the speaker is materialistic. It is a little bit more than thinking that the lady is a gold-digger. She is simply speaking out her mind. According to her, a rose is outdated, and maybe she is only looking for something new or valuable.
Frustration with Men
Although the poem does not say that the speaker is a woman, we can see that she is a lady who is f...