Dove’s “Daystar” explains the role of a stay at home mother and wife. Her job is difficult due to child care and taking care of household chores. Lines one through three of Dove’s poem read “She wanted a little room for thinking/ but she saw diapers steaming on the line,/ a doll slumped behind the door.” The woman needs leisure time to think however the only thing she can see is the unending measure of diapers she needs to change and all the time it takes to administer to a tyke. She feels like a limp, dead
