Music can often be a get away from reality. It can generate tranquility, relaxation, and healing for both the mind, the soul and the body. Life can be extremely difficult, from losing a love one, experiences as a child, and life’s everyday struggles. Music can be used to disconnect from reality. Music has the ability to help forget about everything negative that happens in life. Music can symbolize many things. In Thomas and Beulah music symbolizes love for Thomas. For Beulah music represents healing from all the pain she feels. There is always a time where pain is introduced into life in various ways. Looking for solutions can be overwhelming and being lost in our own minds is very common. In Thomas and Beulah Thomas goes through many difficult situation. Thomas is an example of everyday struggles. In the poem “The Event” Thomas and his best friend Lem are out in the water when Thomas says “‘You’re so fine and mighty; let’s see what you can do’, said Thomas, pointing to a tree-capped island (Dove The Event …show more content…
Breaking down her work and understanding her writing seems to always symbolize music. In “Rita Dove and the Art of History” by Pat Righelato. Righelato speaks on Dove’s piece Thomas and Beulah and matches Dove’s style to music. Righelato says “The poem, formally innovates in its ‘two sides of the story’, ‘mandolin’ from Thomas perspective and ‘Canary in Bloom’ from Beulah’s exhibits Dove’s ability, in her own words, to weave lyrics as ‘discrete moments’ like ‘beads on necklace’ that takes together to create the ‘sweep of time’ The symbolic motifs are musical” (Righelato 760) Righelato seems to understand Dove’s work and understands that music is a big part in Thomas and Beulah. Righelato’s way to describe Dove’s style correlates to how music symbolizes many of Dove’s finest work. Music it’s understood in various ways in all of Dove’s pieces. Dove uses Music as a way to write her