1. Pity the Beautiful by: Dana Gioia CAITLYN BROWN

2. Pity the Beautiful By Dana GioiaDana Gioia Pity the beautiful, the dolls, and the dishes, the babes with big daddies granting their wishes. Pity the pretty boys, the hunks, and Apollos, the golden lads whom success always follows. The hotties, the knock-outs, the tens out of ten, the drop-dead gorgeous, the great leading men. Pity the faded, the bloated, the blowsy, the paunchy Adonis whose luck’s gone lousy. Pity the gods, no longer divine. Pity the night the stars lose their shine.

3. Biographical Information  Dana Gioia Gioia has published four full-length collections of poetry In 2014 he won the Aiken- Taylor award for life time achievement for poetry Gioia writes twentieth century poems and long man anthology of short fiction He is the recipient of 10 honorary degrees Gioia has won numerous awards like Laetare medal from Notre Dame In 2011 he became the judge for poetry and public culture at the university of California For a few years Gioia was the ninth chairman of the National Endowment for the arts Gioia has founded and codirected two literary conferences which he dedicated to improve the teaching of poetry in high schools

4. Structure of the poem  5 stanzas  4 lines in each stanza  20 lines in the whole poem Pity the Beautiful By Dana GioiaDana Gioia Pity the beautiful, (A) the dolls, and the dishes, (B) the babes with big daddies (C) granting their wishes.(B) Pity the pretty boys,(D) the hunks, and Apollos, (E) the golden lads whom(D) success always follows. (E) The hotties, the knock-outs,(F) the tens out of ten, (G) the drop-dead gorgeous,(F) the great leading men.(G) Pity the faded, (H) the bloated, the blowsy,(I) the paunchy Adonis (J) whose luck’s gone lousy.(I) Pity the gods,(K) no longer divine.(L) Pity the night(K) the stars lose their shine.(L)

5. Speaker of the poem  The speaker of the poem was once someone who was beautiful and lucky, they thought that they’d stay that way forever but over time they became ugly and unlucky and not as good as they used to be.

6. Literary Elements Allusions- Adonis and Apollo was put in there because they were Greek gods and were very handsome, young, remarkable beauty, and showed of young love. Metaphor- drop dead gorgeous, the knock outs, golden lads,

7. Imagery  “the dolls, and the dishes” showing dolls and fancy plates and dishes  “the babes with big daddies” showing big men with pretty babes or women  “the stars lose their shine” showing stars becoming dull and not shining anymore  “the drop dead gorgeous” showing beautiful people  “the great leading men” showing a leader in front who's great

8. Literal meaning Be sad for the beautiful Pity everything beautiful Pity those who have luck

9. Figurative meaning The figurative meaning would be that the people think of themselves more then just beautiful, they care way to much about their looks and how they see them selves and feel amazing just because of their appearance, but eventually they’ll turn old and looks will change.

10. Authors Purpose  The authors purpose of writing this poem was to pity lucky and beautiful people because they think that they’ll stay the way they are now forever, but they won’t. Also to show people they won’t stay pretty as time goes on, and eventually they’ll be ugly and unlucky or not wealthy.

11. Theme Special and beautiful things wont stay beautiful and special as time goes on. Everyone changes over time and never stays the same.

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