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.
Lorna Crozier’s poem, “Repetitions for my Mother” and Buddy Wakefield’s poem “Guitar Repair Women” present the lives of the speaker. In Crozier’s poem the speaker sounds like if their mother is gone the speaker would not be able live on without their mother “I want so much emptiness/for her to fill.” While in Wakefield’s poem the speaker is mature and calm, he talks about his past memories. He’s a strong young man; he can probably live without his mother and he also has a job that will be his future “I play
It’s incredibly evident to the reader that Lord Chesterfield’s son takes advantage of him and this letter is probably Lord Chesterfield’s last effort to guide his son. Lord Chesterfield’s wisdom and core values that he has acquired throughout his life are portrayed into this detailed letter to his son using a variety of rhetorical strategies. In Lord Chesterfield’s introduction to his letter, the atmosphere of the message itself is modest and gentle. He uses his words in such a way that it comes off as if the advice he is going to give is something that his son has grown tired of hearing but Lord Chesterfield is going to share this same piece of advice one last time with his son in a gracious way. One example of Lord Chesterfield’s humble attempt to fill his son with his judgment is through personification: “I know how unwelcome advice generally is;” (lines 5-6).
The extent to which relationships equate to fulfillment is demonstrated within Romulus my father through retrospective analysis of Gaita and Romulus’ early relationship where Gaita alludes to his positive father son relationship as a primary factory for his present day fulfillment. The text emphasizes the composer’s positive moral values being inherited from his fathers consistent loving, harsh and instructing nature. Demonstrated through Gaitas recollection that ”three things fed my fathers anger: his knowledge that I was lying, his fear for my character and his dismay that he had lost something precious”. Gaita recognizes that the strength of their relationship was due to his father’s persistence. The fear of loosing his son led Romulus to attempt to better himself, seen through the statement “My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” Although this method of parenting gave short-term dismay demonstrated through Raimond’s childhood outburst “you don’t love me”.
Then she remembers audience about lost habit of letter writing in this digital age. She decided that she is going to leave her son the legacy of handwriting by leaving something that is related to letters. Before sharing few letters that her father wrote for her, she says, “The same letter that touched his hand, is now in mine”. Letter forms a physical connection between two people, no matter how much time or distance has gone by - it can even bridge a gap between the living and the dead. She says she is emotionally connected with the letters and whenever she reads the letters she remembers her father talking to him.
These strategies will help me better understand the story I am reading. During Reading During reading “The Rocking-horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence I use takes cues from the text, make connection and get involved strategies. The cues were italicized and the meaning of how the money was needed was emphasized by this. The connection was with the little boy Paul; he wanted his mom to be proud of him. I want my parents to be proud of me too.
She describes that this new relationship was different than before; she feels that now they are closer than ever before. Aleshire points this out in the last stanza “I answer that I love him, too, but hardly knowing him, what I love is the way reserve has slipped from his feeling” (pg. 90) to describe that her father was a doctor and barely had enough time to spend with his daughter. Throughout the poem, Joan shows a message to the audience the love for her father. In Joan Aleshire’s poem, the theme she is portraying is her love for her father and that death is a toll that we all have to take.
Cite your resources in text and on the reference page. For information regarding APA samples and tutorials, visit the Ashford Writing Center, within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar, in your online course. This poem to me was breath taking and a great attribute to young love. In reading about Betjamen it seems he had a short love affair with Miss Joan Hunter Dunn during the war and thus the poetry began. Her parents were not pleased with the fact that Betjamne Miss Joan Hunter Dunn is the grandmother of one of my closest friends.
The father is all about his son, probably the best a father could be to protect his son. His stand- point on God is he wants his son to have something to believe in when he is gone. He tries to convince the child, and possibly himself that God is still an active cause to believe in, “My job is to take care of you. I was appointed to do that by God” (77). Here and there he will make small references for the kid even though his belief is cloudy.
What does he feel about his father and how does he portray this? The narrator in the poem ‘Follower’ obviously looked up to his father and he was his role model, as he refers to him as an ‘expert’ at what he did and by making it seem as if he could do anything without much effort. For example, the narrator claims that his father he directed the horses to map the furrow with a single ‘pluck’ of the reins. The word ‘pluck’ makes it seem as if the person put minimal effort into the action and did it very easily without a second thought. This gives us the impression that the narrator feels like his father is very strong and experienced at his job.