(1) Account for the dream vision at the heart of Rose’s “To the Hopi in Richmond” and “Oh My People I Remember.”
(2) Summarize images of femininity in Rose’s “Newborn Woman, May 7, 1948.”
(3) Characterize Rose’s creation of dialogue between a poetic voice and the epigraph of “I expected . . .,” “Three Thousand Dollar Death Song,” “What the Mohawk Made the Hopi Say,” and “Halfbreed Chronicles.”
(4) Contrast autobiographical concerns in Rose’s “Neon Scars,” “Vanishing Point: Urban Indian,” and “Naming Power” with personal reflections in the confessional poems of Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, and James A. Wright.
