Sign Inventory 3, Week 3

Kim Addonizio, "What Do Women Want?"

• Repetiton is used, "I want..."
• There is only seven sentences
• She starts the poem with, "I want a red dress." and towards the end of the poem she restates that she wants the red dress.
• She uses detailed images, but straight to the point.
• She startes the poem with what she wants, at the end she was confident she was going to get it.
• In the second and third line she uses repitition, but a comma breaks it up, not a period.

                Example: first line: "I want a red dress."
                              Second and third line: "I want it flimsy and cheap,
                                                                I want it too tight, I want ti wear it..."