It would allow her to reveal her lucrative body parts. She does not shy away while revealing her body. Women, in general, like garments that are great in quality but economical in price.
Likewise, the speaker does not want to spend much on that dress though she badly wants it. The dress has to fit tightly on her body. It would make her look more attractive to the opposite sex. When she puts on the dress, it will make her partner tear it off from her body. In this way, the first four lines describe what are the things that the poet personally wants, not women in general.
However, some of her wishes overlap with those of others. The first line of this section presents another feature of the dress. According to the speaker, she wants the dress sleeveless and backless. As the dress is flimsy, anyone can guess what she is wearing beneath the dress. Addonizio uses circumlocution to refer to this fact.
It means anyone can guess what she is wearing under the dress. She is trying to say that by looking at her dress one can guess what kind of a lady she is. To clarify, she is such a person who is not ashamed of revealing her body. It is a thing that is cherished with eyes. The more one looks at it, the more he gets attracted like a bee to a flower.
The first line of this section is enjambed with the following line. It seems that she is referring to her neighborhood where she regularly commutes. She can imagine every shop located there. Like the keys are showcased to attract customers, she wishes to reveal herself to attract more males. When a lady senses a fair number of men are attracted to her, it somehow pumps up her confidence. It is also the same with the opposite sex. Furthermore, she refers to Mr. She humorously says that they sell day-old donuts in their shop.
There are Guerra brothers who sell pigs. They are unloading the pigs from a truck and putting them onto a dolly. This section also begins with the phrase.
Here, the poet reveals another thing that women want. They like men trotting around them. It makes a woman feel on top of the universe. Our speaker also wants to feel the same by wearing an attractive dress. In the following line, the poet depicts her naughtiness. She teases her partner by saying that she values the dress more than him. It will make him feel insecure. The red dress is crucial in this respect, because it is what causes the attention.
The red dress is why they see her, and then why they want her. Because it is more than a dress. It is passion, it is desire. It is attitude. Notice that the speaker is not at a fancy party, or gala or event, or on the runway as a model, where one might imagine wearing a sexy red dress. Rather, she walks down the street in the middle of the day. Addonizio surrounds the speaker with gritty images of everyday life- day-old donuts and pigs and sweaty laborers- and the woman in the red dress stands out like a jewel.
The dress sets her apart from the everyday, from the dust and dirt and labor, and makes her special. She wants, in fact, to be the red dress, a highly desirable object inspiring passion and desire in those who see it. I want it. The speaker wants more than a dress. Academy of American Poets. American Poets Magazine. Poems Find and share the perfect poems. I want a red dress. I want it flimsy and cheap, I want it too tight, I want to wear it until someone tears it off me.
I want it sleeveless and backless, this dress, so no one has to guess what's underneath. I want to walk down the street past Thrifty's and the hardware store with all those keys glittering in the window, past Mr. I want to walk like I'm the only woman on earth and I can have my pick.
I want that red dress bad. I want it to confirm your worst fears about me, to show you how little I care about you or anything except what I want.
When I find it, I'll pull that garment from its hanger like I'm choosing a body to carry me into this world, through the birth-cries and the love-cries too, and I'll wear it like bones, like skin, it'll be the goddamned dress they bury me in. Mermaid Song for Aya at fifteen Damp-haired from the bath, you drape yourself upside down across the sofa, reading, one hand idly sunk into a bowl of crackers, goldfish with smiles stamped on. I think they are growing gills, swimming up the sweet air to reach you.
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