[Born: August 22, 1893][Died: June 6, 1967 (died of a heart attack)]● 1914: Sold her first poem to Vanity Fair.● At age 22, she took an editorial job at

Vogue.● Was a “constant reader” of the New

Yorker.● Enough Rope (her first collection of

poems), published in 1926, was a bestseller.

● Friends with Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

● Wrote the 1937 adaption of the screenplay A Star is Born.

● Fought for civil rights, but was involved with the Communist Party.

● This caused her to be blacklisted in Hollywood.

● Wrote a play called Ladies of the Corridor in 1953.

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One Perfect Rose (1926)A single flow'r he sent me, since we met.

All tenderly his messenger he chose;Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet--

One perfect rose.

I knew the language of the floweret;"My fragile leaves," it said, "his heart enclose."

Love long has taken for his amuletOne perfect rose.

Why is it no one ever sent me yetOne perfect limousine, do you suppose?

Ah no, it's always just my luck to getOne perfect rose.

A single flow'r he sent me, since we met.All tenderly his messenger he chose;

Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet--One perfect rose.

I knew the language of the floweret;"My fragile leaves," it said, "his heart enclose."

Love long has taken for his amuletOne perfect rose.

Why is it no one ever sent me yetOne perfect limousine, do you suppose?

Ah no, it's always just my luck to getOne perfect rose.

● Rhyme Scheme: ABAB, CBCB, ABAB (Close or Exact Rhymes)

● 3 Stanzas, 3 thoughts, 3 emotions

● Imagery

● Tone: Reminiscence, realization

● “Just My Luck”: unsatisfied.

● Wants the finer things in life, not just a rose.

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