Because Of My Father's Job Poem Analysis

Ba, Daddy, babbo, papa, padre and baba are some of the terms one can use to say father. A father is someone that holds a unique position in one’s heart and life, unless they are not there. Then, a father is just an idea. The poem Telemachus, which was written by Ocean Vuong, is a poem about a missing father. Poetry and writing can be based off of personal experience and perspectives. Vuong was born in Vietnam and moved to the United States when he was just a child and mostly grew up with only his mother. Vuong using his personal experiences about his relationship with his father to creates writing full of echoes, memories and imagery in his poem, Telemachus.

Everyone has a father. No matter if the father is present in a child’s life or not, he still exists and takes that role. A father has a major impact on his child whether he knows it or not, and that impact and example shapes the child’s perspective on life, and on love. The authors, Robert Hayden and Lucille Clifton, share the impact of their fathers through poetry, each with their own take on how their fathers treated them. The poems “Forgiving My Father” and “Those Winter Sundays” have significant differences in the speaker’s childhood experiences, the tone of the works, and the imagery presented, which all relate to the different themes of each poem.

Fathers are often the parent who kids, especially sons, look up to and use as an inspiration. They inspire them to one day become successful in life and be able to provide for a family of their own, similar to how they, the fathers, did. This is apparent in both, the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and the image of a baby holding on to his father's middle finger by Alex Taylor. The writer and photographer both portray the father and son relationship as one that requires a great deal of sacrifice by the father in order for their sons to lead a better life, whether this is in the form of education or even just a warm home to wake up in. However, they are able to get these points across in different ways, whether it is through the

Although single parenthood is on the rise in homes today, children still often have a father role in their life. It does not matter who the part is filled by: a father, uncle, older brother, grandfather, etc...; in almost all cases, those relationships between the father (figure) and child have lasting impacts on the youth the rest of their lives. In “I Wanted to Share My Father’s World,” Jimmy Carter tells the audience no matter the situation with a father, hold onto every moment.

In their recent work, Brad Manning and Sarah Vowell have written about more than one way to have a close, but different relationship with their fathers. There is has always been a belief that to get along with someone you would have normal conversations, enjoy each other’s company, or share a common interest. In the story they love their father as any other child would, but their ways of communication are not the same and are different from a common father-child relationship. Both authors use rhetorical devices as a framework for differentiating their relationships with their fathers by characterizing them.

The relationship between a father and their child is tremendously salient, and will influence the life of both the parent and the adolescent in many ways. Often, it can be difficult for someone to share their personal relationships that they had with their father, as it can be a very delicate subject. Despite this, renowned authors Brad Manning and Sandra Cisneros are two people who chose to write about their unique experiences and childhoods that they shared with their fathers. Both Brad and Sandra felt their childhood relationships with their fathers were unorthodox. This was explicitly outlined in Brad's freshman composition paper titled Arm Wrestling With My Father and Sandra's magazine article titled Only Daughter. Through varying rhetorical strategies, the authors purpose and audience is clearly portrayed in both selections.

This essay will discuss Simon J. Ortiz’s poem, “My Father’s Song.” The poem is narrated by a son who speaks about his father, and a time they experienced together. It is important for a reader to discover Ortiz was raised as an Acoma Indian. The reason this is so important is because before you start trying to figure out the purpose of this poem, you must first know the authors background and the foundation that his work originates from. Many of Ortiz’s poems demonstrate his Indian cultures that has been passed down from generation to generation. Throughout this essay, I will examine the different characteristics of the poem. I will talk about aspects such as tone, theme, imagery, and more to provide an idea of what I believe Ortiz is trying

Fathers play an influential part in their children’s lives. In the novel, The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter, True Son, a white boy, was captured by Indians at age four and returned at fifteen. He experiences the influence of three fathers: Harry Butler, his biological father; Cuyloga, his Indian father; and the Sun, his spiritual father, all who influence the man he will someday become

Being a father is a thankless job; it is a heavy responsibility for those who hold the title. There are some fathers who fail their children through abuse, neglect, and absence. Theodore Roethke’s “Papa’s Waltz” recounts a night the speaker’s father returns home late after drinking. What happens next can be interpreted as violence or merriment. Lucille Clifton’s “Forgiving my Father” is a visit to the grave where the child of two deceased parents “pays her dues”. The relationship between father and child in “Forgiving my Father” by Clinton is more positive than that in Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” allowing for a more loving speaker.

Li-Young Lee and Robert Hayden both write about the theme of good fatherhood in their poems, with a dedicated father being the central image in “The Gift,” and a hard working father in “Those Winter Holidays.” Both poems share similar meanings. They both involve a father teaching his children in different ways. Father removing a splinter from son’s palm. “To pull the metal splinter from my palm, my father revised a story in a low voice.”

Carl Sandburg’s “What Shall He Tell that Son” and Judy Fong-Bates’s “The Gold Mountain” Coat both talk about the relationship between father and son. “What shall He Tell that Son” is a poem that narrated the father who tells his son the complexity of life in a gentle way. The father—Sam Sing- in “The Gold Mountain Coat” is a strict person, and he uses his own way to teach his son a lesson about life, and shows his love in a different way. While both “What Shall He Tell that Son” and “The Gold Mountain Coat” shows two fathers’ high expectations for their sons, the father in “What shall He Tell that Son” has a more gentle relationship with his son, while the father in “The Gold Mountain Coat” has a more stern relationship with his son. “What

A father and son relationship is very important. It is the foundation for boys to become men. The article, “Why the Father Wound Matter: Consequences for Male Mental Health and the Father-Son Relationship”, by Eric D. Miller explains the concept of a father wound that can manifest in males due to a father neglecting or abusing them. Miller stresses that by becoming fathers’, men can overcome father wounds. He touches upon the idea of masculinity, and how it can be a factor to why there is sometimes a distant relationship between a father and a son. The “A Father’s Call: Father-Son Relationship Survival of Critical Life Transitions”, by Ivory Achebe Toldson and Ivory Lee Toldson explains the relationship between a father and a son from adolescent into adulthood. Lee who was the father describes his struggles through a divorce and how he stayed connected to his son no matter what occurred. Lee’s son Achehbe is also featured in the article and expresses the rough childhood he went through without his father being directly in his life. Together these two articles show that a father is essential to the raising of a boy because without one many form father wounds along with emotional problems.

Although everyone has a father, the relationship that each person has with his or her father is different. Some are close to their fathers, while some are distant; some children adore their fathers, while other children despise them. For example, in Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” Hayden writes about his regret that he did not show his love for his hardworking father sooner. In Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” she writes about her hatred for her brute father. Despite both authors writing on the same topic, the two pieces are remarkably different. Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” and Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” have different themes that are assembled when the authors put their different uses of imagery, tone, and characterization together.

Father son relationships are different in every situation. A fathers influence is a crucial part of the child’s development. Some get along tremendously. Others can be burdensome and challenging. In the novel The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini a fathers influence on his child is shown numerous times. A fathers job is to mold his son into a true man who will go on in life to be respected. In the novel, Baba and Amir and Ali and Hassan are the two preeminent father son relationships shown. The two relationships show how a fathers influence is important. The two relationships may have seemed similar throughout the novel but there evident differences.

This poem takes place in a city bar that has a poorly structure stage. The bar is Latino based because of the Cuban food they serve so the family is most likely Cuban. The father in this poem goes to this bar with his family and he spends an absurd amount of time drinking and playing guitar. He is 45 and is live liking like a rock star. His family is embarrassed of him because the daughter stated “where I sit, frozen, unable to make a sound” (lines 9). Later, she talks about her mother, she supports him by smiling to him but behind that fake smile is her embarrassment. The other two children hide under the table so people would no notice them. “Mae and Mitzy hide under the table shielding them from shame with a blood-red tablecloth…” (lines 13-15). The two children could not stand his father playing guitar up in that stage, he must be awful in the guitar that results of his family to be embarrassed.