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The Dressing Rita Dove addresses the journey to fulfill self Confidence

In her sonnet The Dressing Rita Dove addresses the journey to fulfill self confidence and what it is to give your all George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower son of a so called African Prince Friedrich Bridgetower and white mother was a prestige violinist mentored by the great Ludwig van Beethoven to whom his fame came to an end because of his unfulfilling ways We see that although the father and son relationship was not all it should have been they found a way to get through the many obstacles thrown their way The treatment of the son as a friend to the father and the absence of the true father son relationship resulted in their downfall Friedrich Bridgetower failed to teach his son the true ways of life Living your life through the eyes of your son can be rewarding yet unfulfilling because your life experience can or cannot teach another what you have experienced The beginning of the poem depicted from Friedrich s point of view describes how he is viewed from the people s perspective Outside I am not a man I am a thing lines 1 2 Here Friedrich describes the discrimination towards him I believe he is setting the tone to let George know regardless of how light skinned he is he is still a Black man and everyone is not going to like him because of his skin tone 



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