Cozy Apologia

• Cozy Apologia context


  Rita Dove, who is the writer was in an interracial relationship and experienced discrimination because of this and wrote the poem during Hurricane Floyd.
• Repeated use of inclusive pronoun


  Allows the poem to be applied to anyone.
• Cozy Apologia


  Means defence of comfort - cozy being comfort and Apologia means the defence of something
• First Stanza


  Uses common romantic tropes to depict her husband as a hero
• Second Stanza


  Rita Dove criticises modern lives and uses the hurricane as a metaphor for tumultuous relationship
• Final Stanza


  Romantic imagery is gone and implies that they are content with real life
• Repeated Romantic tropes


  Created a sense of intimacy
• Repeated use of 'any'

  allows the poem to apply to anyone
• Use of plosives throughout the second paragraph


  Make modernism seem heavy and bulky
• "Oddly male"


  Emasculating hurricane and past relationships
• "Kiss you senseless"


  Use of sibilance
• "Sweet with a dark and hollow centre"


  Imagery makes past relationships seem confectionary and a sweet to be had once
• "Aerie"


  Both of them are nestled away from the storm in safety
• "(Twin desks, computers, hardwood floors)"


  the list of three shows the ordinary in their love
• "Were content, but fall short of divine"


  Relationship isn't blessed but she's content with it