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Comparing Poetry to Painting
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Which statement is true of both Dove's poem and
Kahlo's painting?
This is for the woman with one black wing
perched over her eyes: lovely Frida, erect
among parrots, in the stern petticoats of the
peasant,
who painted herself a present-
wildflowers entwining the plaster corset
her spine resides in, that flaming pillar-
this priestess in the romance of mirrors.
Each night she lay down in pain and rose
to the celluloid butterflies of her Beloved Dead,
Lenin and Marx and Stalin arrayed at the
footstead.
And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting
like children along the graveled walks of the
garden. Diego's
O They indicate the importance of natural elements
in Kahlo's life.
O They make the audience aware of Kahlo's unique
features and strength.
They reference the pain that caused Kahlo's
lifelong suffering
They point to Kahlo's acceptance of different
philosophies

the answer is b