Victoria Caramico July 30,2011 Li-Young Lee uses a variety of literary devices in his poem "A Story" to show the emotional relationship between a father and son. Among the devices, Lee uses structure, description, and allegory. Lee carefully applies literary devices such as structure between the present and future, point of view, and allegory using a story to represent the elaborate relationship between a father and son in his poem "A Story." To show the relationship the father has and would like to always have with his son, Lee structures the poem from present tothe future and back to the present. He starts with the present, son begging his father to tell him a new story.
In the poem A Father to his Son by Carl Sandburg, a father advises his son, leading him through a set of guidelines and values to assist him untie the knot of inextricable uncertainties, problems, pain, and complexities of life. Based on his experience, he knows that there is no perfect formula for living. As a result, father suggests values that will help his son lead a purposeful, satisfying life. Markedly, out of his different suggestions, being true and honest stand out. Although limited in poetic devices, personification, rhetoric question, and an enthusiastic one are evident.
How do ‘Follower’ and ‘Once upon a time’ show father and son relationship? ‘Follower’, written in 1966 by Seamus Heaney and ‘Once upon a time’, written by Gabriel Okara both explore the issue of a relationship between father and son. However, they express this in different situations and forms. ‘Follower’ expresses the relationship with father and son with the son being admired by his father and wanting to be just like him which suddenly contrasts at the end of the poem. ‘Once upon a time’ expresses the relationship between each other as if it was some form of fairy tale story.
I Hate How Much I Love You -My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke Explication Essay Theodore Roethke's ambiguous poem "My Papa’s Waltz" is filled with an interesting background that is directed toward the speaker and his father. This particular free verse is unique because it offers numerous situations that the child was put in with his father, more distinctly, the love toward the father. The incentive of this poetry displays how powerful the bond of loved ones can be; this is evident when the flaws of the father was overlooked and the speaker was still “clinging” onto his shirt. Upon reading the first stanza, it was obvious that the speaker realized that his father was drunk. However, in the mist of it all, he still cared and loved his father.
My father’s voice tore me from my daydreams: “What a shame, a shame that you did not go with your mother. ... I saw many children your age going with their mothers…” (Wiesel 28). This is one of the moments when Elie realizes his father’s love for him and the
In the first two stanzas, Henry Lawson has used many techniques to give a sense of loneliness. Lawson uses words such as ‘vast, vanished’ to express how alone Harry (the drover) is. Also, he tells us that Harry has not been seen by loved ones for a long time, and that he hoped to get back to them soon. This brings us to the next theme, love. Harry is finding his way back home because he wants to see his ‘home-folk’, meaning the people from his home.
The door might symbolize transformation in the story and is described as “the most essential gesture in a boy’s life” (Meyer 297). Later, on page 300 the author refers to the door as ”the threshold that has welcomed them when they haven’t been able to welcome themselves”(Moody 300). We get intimate details of the boy’s life and the narrator helps us fill in the blanks using limited omnipotent narration. Jamaica Kincaid’s story, in contrast, is in second person, the mother is the narrator. Writing in second person is taboo in literature making the piece novel and avant-garde.
"Mid-Term Break" is a very emotive poem in which Seamus Heaney reflects on the death of his little brother and explains what was going through his mind at that time. The poem's title suggests a holiday but this "break" does not happen for pleasant reasons. For most of the poem Heaney writes of people's differing reactions and at the end he is able to grieve honestly. My first opinion of this poem was that it would be a bright poem and a child’s thoughts and exaggerations of the time they get away from school. I first realised this was not the case as I read the first line, “I sat all morning in college sick bay” Immediately the line tells me that something is wrong as “sick bay” is were children usually end up when they are feeling unwell.
It’s hard to know what he actually thinks but through him we see the previous faith being installed in the son. From the beginning of the book we have been able to see the father stressed, even bothered at God. This shows signs of cloudiness because he says, “Are you there? he whispered. Will I see you at last?
Abbie Schwarz ENC 1102 2.19.2012 Oedipus Complex Questions 1. The child in the story is used to not having his father around very much. When his father comes home from the war, the child is worried that his father will take his place. The child is trying to vow for the most of his mother’s attention. The expected reaction to his father’s rare appearances would be what the child did in the story.