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‘Resumé’ by Dorothy Parker is an eight-line poem that is contained within one stanza of text. The lines follow a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD and a regular metrical pattern of diameter. The latter refers to the number of beats per line.
"Resumé," Dorothy Parker's sardonic poem about suicide, first appeared in her 1926 collection Enough Rope. Running down a list of all the various ways a person might try to end their own life, the poem's speaker decides against them one by one: they're all too messy, too unpleasant, or too tedious.
Raised on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Dorothy Parker built a career that was defined by her wit and her incisive commentary on contemporary America. She was born two months prematurely at her family’s summer home in West End, New Jersey.
Resumé Lyrics. Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
Resume Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1926 A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Dorothy Parker’s poems, stories, and reviews, wisecracking and wary, were the toast of New York in the 1920’s and early 1930’s.
The present article analyzes the dialogical essence of Dorothy Parker’s short story “New York to Detroit”. The undertaken study reveals the existence of a literary dialogue (between the writer and the reader), which is shaped around a literary-communicative intention.
