Unfortunately, Carver’s love toward his father was put in writing after his father’s death. Both Robert Hayden and Raymond Carver expressed heartfelt love through their poems. Next, Hayden and Carver showed the sense of regret because they never fully understood the sacrifices their fathers made for them. In fact, Robert Hayden was extremely disappointed because in his poem he writes, “No one ever thanked him.” This made him reflect on his relationship with his father; how little he thanked his father for providing for him and his family. In the same manner, Raymond Carver found himself
The metaphor and simile of the “pen” and “snug as a gun” explains the last line “I’ll dig with it” and his attitude toward his family tradition (3-31). The narrator seems that he is afraid from his family to force him to follow their tradition, which is shown in the line 5 “My father, digging, I look down” (5). “I look down” describe the situation of the narrator when he sits up in his room and look down which he does not want to go down with his father. Therefore, the metaphor “snug as a gun” is used to protect his desire to be a writer which he likens the pen to a gun to describe his rejection of his family tradition. The comparison between the “pen” and “gun” seems that a pen has a power as a gun when the writer uses the pen to express about his own opinion.
Instead, he is "stumbling over tenses in Caesar's Gallic War", forgetting his "first Polish word." The process of education leads him to drift from his heritage, but this process seems to be more of a slow movement away rather than a conscious decision not to belong. In the poem there is a more indistinct modification of the son's attitude towards belonging over time. The metaphor of him pegging his "tents further and further south of Hadrian's Wall" is showing the new cultural differences between Peter
the Yearling Author: Marjorie Rawlings Fiction Characters: Jody Baxter Flag (Jody’s pet fawn) Pa Baxter A.K.A Penny (Jody’s father) Ma Baxter (Jody’s mother) Jody Baxter was an all out American boy. His thoughts and actions were almost identical to any average lad of today. His constant desire for food, a good long hunt, and a dedicated pet are qualities of a true backwoods boy. The Yearling, by Marjorie Rawlings, illustrates how Jody’s sense of responsibility helped him to resolve his conflict between meeting his own desire to raise the fawn, and meeting his family’s need for survival. Jody’s sense of responsibility helped him to enjoy his experiences in raising Flag, the fawn.
Christian Cacace 5/6/14 Prof. Drucker English 102 Appreciation “Those Winter Sundays” is a poem by Robert Hayden about a hard working foster father who is not appreciated by anyone. Having come from a poor family and loving a foster father who loved the door next to his parent’s place it made him write a poem about his foster father. The poem is about a man who has to wake up all the days of the week to work and support his family. Since he has to do hard chores during the week, his hands ache on Sundays but he can’t rest because he has to make the fire and do his daily work. The son cannot wake up until he feels that the room is warm from the fire lit by his father.
There are examples of how their relationship is continuously evolving throughout the story. This story displays the ups and downs of their rocky relationship as father and son , thus providing the reader with evidence of both hope and despair. Their relationship is shown through a positive light when the sons are continuing to mature and learn about the land. Nathan loved to have his sons beside him and loved teaching them about the land. Nathan’s plan from when his sons were very young was that as soon as they were old enough, they would be working with him on the land, no questions asked.
In “Barn Burning,” the author, William Faulkner, composes a wonderful story about a poor boy who lives in anxiety, despair, and fear. He introduces us to Colonel Satoris Snopes, or Sarty, a boy who is mature beyond his years. Due to the harsh circumstances of life, Sarty must choose between justice and his family. At a tender age of ten, Sarty starts to believe his integrity will help him make the right choices. His loyalty to family doesn’t allow for him to understand why he warns the De Spain family at such a young age.
Peter Skzynecki explores the concept of belonging in his poem, “Feiks Skzynecki,” in which he writes about his father’s attachment to his garden and the concept of not belonging in the poem “St. Patrick’s College,” where Peter writes about his struggles and hardships of his schooling life. When people experience a strong connection to a place, the notion of belonging is associated with positive feelings, however when this connection is not there, a feeling of isolation and alienation occurs. The idea of belonging is mostly perceived as a connection with others, however people can develop a sense of belonging with their memories and particular places. In the poem “Feliks Skrynecki” this concept of belonging is explored.
So, Rip prefers helping his neighbours with their farms to cultivating his land and providing for his family, as every respectable man does. Thus, he lives constantly under a “petticoat government” (p.947) instead of being the head of the house. Also, Irving underlines sarcastically that Rip “has inherited but little of the martial character of his ancestors” (p.938)* indicating that he is not the American hero that would fight for his country and be a frontier man. Consequently, when the time for Revolution and action comes in America, Rip falls asleep for twenty years. Waking, he finds himself “stiff in the joints” (p.943)* from the inactiveness, while some of his friends have died as American heroes (Brom Dutcher) and others have survived and continue their struggle through politics (Van Bummel).
The third stanza continues to give an impression of precision: “Mapping the furrow exactly.” The fourth stanza moves the focus from his father to Heaney himself. There is a marked contrast with his father as Heaney ”stumbled”. There is an imature ineptitude conveyed here, as he “fell sometimes”. He describes being given a piggy-back and he was carried along with him. Heaney states that it was an ambition to plough like his father, and there is a tinge of sadness that “All I ever did was follow in his broad shadow”.