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Analysis and comments on The Red Dress by Dorothy Parker

Comment 3 of 3, added on May 9th, 2007 at 12:49 AM.

The Red Dress
Dorothy Parker

I always saw, I always said
If I were grown and free,
I'd have a gown of reddest red
As fine as you could see,

To wear out walking, sleek and slow,
Upon a Summer day,
And there'd be one to see me so
And flip the world away.

And he would be a gallant one,
With stars behind his eyes,
And hair like metal in the sun,
And lips too warm for lies.

I always saw us, gay and good,
High honored in the town.
Now I am grown to womanhood....
I have the silly gown.


Me from United States
Comment 2 of 3, added on March 2nd, 2005 at 10:20 AM.

This poem is just like the poem's i write myself I love poems that have
great ending to them.

alisha wooten
Comment 1 of 3, added on January 6th, 2005 at 12:44 PM.

i love this poem the ending is funny

jen from Canada



Information about The Red Dress

Poet: Dorothy Parker
Poem: 2. The Red Dress
Volume: Sunset Gun
Year: 1928
Added: Feb 3 2004
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