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Beauty And The Beast Poem

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The poem, Beauty and the Beast by Rita Dove, is an extension of the original fairytale, Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont which was concluded with the happy marriage between Beauty and Beast and they lived happily ever after, but the poem gives a darker meaning by going beyond the happily ever after which is quire similar to the style to Louise Glück’s “Gretel in the Drakness”. With the knowledge that the poem is related to the original fairytale, the only two possible personas for the poems are Beauty and Beast. The poem uses lines which state that the persona has a father and sisters, and it also refers to Beast as well. This leaves Beauty as the only possible choice for the persona for Beast did not have any father …show more content…

There are three characteristic of love present in the poem, love can be cheap, love can be for money and love is fair. In fairytales, we are always given the illusion that love is perfect, but the reality is, its not always what it seems. We all know the story of Beauty and the Beast. The idea of their love for one another is what parents use to keep children anticipating future love, but the poem contrasts this love. In the novel, Beauty returns to the castle because she sees Beast dying and confesses her love to him. The poem offers a contrast. The only reason why she went back was she did not want to be held responsible for the death of Beast and she felt the pain of Beast. The line, “Beast, when you lay stupid with grief at my feet, I was too young to see anything die.”, represents her purpose of coming back was not out of love, but to let go of the guilt that could have held her down. So she ends up confessing her cheap love so that Beast would not die thus freeing her from the guilt, but Beast’s feeling towards her become like a rabbit which could represent someone’s hearty which would beat a lot faster when they are in love, but she answers back by saying, “my child legs, pale from a life of petticoats?” which causes a contrast between Beast’s true love for her and her cheap love as a response. With hits thru the poem that she has aged, we can see that Beauty regrets on giving the cheap love that she had for “the roses are folding lip upon red lip” which means that years have gone

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