Which quotation from the poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove includes an allusion? “Each night she la

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Which quotation from the poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove includes an allusion?

“Each night she lay down in pain and rose”
“And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting” 
“Diego’s / love a skull in the circular window”
“of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow”

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“Diego’s / love a skull in the circular window”

Explanation: naming “Diego” alludes to the historical figure Diego Rivera (Frida Kahlo’s husband) and invokes Mexican iconography (the skull/Day of the Dead), so it functions as an allusion.

Which quotation from the poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove includes an allusion?

“Each night she lay down in pain and rose”
“And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting”
“Diego’s / love a skull in the circular window”
“of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow”

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Which quotation from the poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove includes an allusion? “Each night she lay down in pain and rose” “And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting” “Diego’s / love a skull in the circular window” “of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow”

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