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Drum Dream Girl
By: Margarita Engle
Presented by: Lauren Hapeshis
Drum Dream Girl
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/141837/drum-dream-girl
Drum Dream Girl
Tone
The tone of the poem is frustration because all she wants to do is play her drums for others to hear but she can't because only boys are allowed to.
Theme
The theme of this poem is equality, because the drum girl just wants to play her drums for everyone to hear, but everyone keeps reminding her that girls should not play drums and that only boys should play drums
Alliteration
- "The drum dream girl dreamed."-Alliteration; She uses alliteration to emphasize what the girl did.
- "the drum dream girl had to keep dreaming and drumming alone"-Alliteration; This emphasizes that the drum girl had to dream alone.
Literary devices
Onomatopoeia
Literary Devices
- "she listened to the rattling beat to towering dancers on stilts"-Onomatopoeia; This literary device gives us a description of the beat the dancers are creating.
- "as they rippled, rapped, and pounded all the rythms of her drum dreams"- Onomatopoeia; This lets us know the sound of the rythms her drums make.
- "boom boom booming"-Onomatopoeia; an onomatopoeia is used to let the reader know what sound the drum makes when played.
- "she heard the whir of parrot wings"-onomatopoeia; This onomatopoeia makes the sound of the parrots wings more descriptive.
- "the clack of woodpecker beaks"-onomatopoeia; The literary device used makes the sound of the wood peckers beak descriptive.
Personification
- "her hands seemed to fly"-Personification; hands cannot fly
Literary Devices
Simile
- "she was ready to play her small bongo drums outdoors at a starlit cafe that looked like a garden"- Simile; the cafe is being compared to a garden
Literary Devices
Imagery
- When she walked under wind-wavy palm trees in a flower-bright park she heard the whir of parrot wings the clack of woodpecker beaks the dancing tap of her own footsteps and the comforting pat of her own heartbeat.; This shows imagery by painting a vivid picture in the readers minds, because she uses strong words to paint a picture in your head.
Literary Devices
Rhyme Scheme
There is no particular rhyme scheme because this is a free verse poem.
Rhyme Scheme
Word Choice
- timbales- two conjoined Afro-Cuban drums similar to bongos; she uses this word because where she comes from she uses timbales rather than bongos
- whir- to move or transport with a whirring sound; this word explains the sound of a parrots wings
- rippled- to flow with a light rise and fall or ruffling of the surface; this word explains how her hands moved as she played
- rapped- to utter sharply or vigorously; this word also tells how she played the drums
Image
Image
The theme of this poem is equality, so I chose this image because it represented equality very well. This image shows a line of different colored/shaped trees, but there reflections are all the same in the water. This shows that even if someone may look different or act different everyone should be treated equally and have the same rights no mattter what. There reflections in the water represent everyone being equal by showing all of the trees the same.