Rita Frances Dove is the first African America to serve as the Laureate Consulate in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Born 1925, she also holds the title of being the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004-2006. One of Dove’s most popular poems is Daystar in which she creates a persona which describes the life of being a mother and a wife. In the poem Daystar, the unnamed persona seeks solitude while she shoulders the role of mother and a wife. Daystar begins with the line “she wanted a little room for thinking.” This is one of the more literal and powerful line of the poem. This line summarizes the poem and also establishes the theme of the poem; the need
