Father And Son By Li-Young Lee: Poem Analysis

As we get older we tend to reflect more on our life and get our priorities together. We tend to realize who and what is important, the people who mean the most to us and the ones we can’t live without. Who would those significant individuals be for us? For most people it would be their parents. In the poems “My Father’s Song” by Simon J. Ortiz, and “My Mother” by Ellen Bryant Voigt, both writers express their emotion towards a parent. The poems are similar in many ways simply because they share a parent child relationship, they are also vastly different. “My Fathers Song” is a poem about a son who lost his father and is grieving and referring back to old memories, reflecting on their past and the wonderful time he had with his father. “My Mother” on the other hand is a poem about a daughter who lost her mother and is having a difficult time coping as she reflects on the decisions she made as a child and how that affected her relationship with her mother. Despite their differences, the two poems share a true connection of love towards their parent. Most notably “My Fathers Song” and “My Mother” differ in the relationship with their parent, the settings in which the memories they hold of their parents take place, and who they are mourning over, yet the two have a strong emphasis on love.

The Tone of “Daddy” and “My Papa’s Waltz” is what differentiates the two child-father relationships in the poems from one another with “Daddy” having a tone of hate and fear

Have you ever been separated from your dad for a while? We already know that the dad’s love cannot be compared with another thing in the world. The relationship between a father and his son is one of the most important things in life. In the novel “When the Emperor Was Divine” by Julie Otsuka shows the relationship assists in making a boy recognize the love of his father while he is in the internment camp for a long time. We may see through the third chapter as the father and his boy encourage their self-confidence to overcome their own experiences of being separated from each other. We are able to see how this relationship become strong and how it is linked for the boy’s feelings. Through this essay I would like to prove the importance of the father and his son, and how they illustrated this love in the novel “When the Emperor was Divine”.

The first feeling of this story is that the boy and his father struggle with their relationship, but as it unfolds, the reader sees how they do care for each other. It also becomes easier to spot the difficulties of communicating within a broken family. The father does a fine job to of turning the boy’s scheduling obsessions into a positive for the boy by noting it as one of his strong points.

The contrast between the son’s first words with his father and his later conversation emphasizes how rapidly he is growing up. At first, the son lovingly exclaims, “not the same story baba, a new one”. However, towards the end, the son’s affectionate speech turns angry, as he shouts,“are you a god, the man that screams?”

Several things that happen in this book are a result of what the father and son do in their relationships for

The poem “A Story” by Li young Lee tells of a young child asking his father for story. The boy simply wants a story that he has never heard, his father is bombarded with panic as he seems to think he is disappointing his son. Through analysis of structure, points of view and metaphors this seemingly simple story is transformed into a deep meaningful poem about a complex relationship between a father and son.

As the story quotes, " 'Mother, what are you doing?' he asked. 'Do not worry, my son,' she answered gently. 'I am just marking the was so you will not get lost returning to the village.' " This quote generally means that the mother and son are very close and they both share a very detailed relationship. The feelings the story bring to the characters is showing how much the characters love and care for each other. But some others characters show different emotions like the young lord, he was very mean and treated most people with no respect. An example would be when the story quotes, " 'Fools!' the lord cried angrily. 'What good is your wisdom if you cannot help me now?' ". This quote shows how the young lord did not have confidence in his wise

In the poem the speaker tells us about how his father woke up early on Sundays and warmed the house so his family can wake up comfortably. We are also told that as he would dress up and head down stairs he feared ¨the chronic angers of that house¨, which can be some sort of quarrel between his father and his mother in the house. This can also lead the reader to believe that the father may have had been a hard dad to deal with. However the father would polish his son's shoes with his cracked hands that ached. This shows the love that the father had for his son and now that the son has grown he realizes what his father did for him. The sons morals and feelings have changed him because as he has grown to become a man he has learned the true meaning of love is being there for one's family and not expecting it to be more than what it is. Consequently this teaches him a lesson on how much his father loved him and how much he regrets not telling him thank

I truly get the father’s anguish and grief. The poems express oscillating feelings that explore the dimensions of extent of strong human emotion. At the same time I understand the son’s rebelliousness to a parent who insists that he (the father) listens yet strongly occurs as imposing. Unfortunately, the love desperately being communicated does not go across. The story revolved in the father’s thoughts, dreams and memories without an actual dialogue: an attempt to truly listen and get his son.

The role of a father could be a difficult task when raising a son. The ideal relationship between father and son perhaps may be; the father sets the rules and the son obeys them respectfully. However it is quite difficult to balance a healthy relationship between father and son, because of what a father expects from his son. For instance in the narratives, “Death of a Salesman,” and “Fences” both Willy and Troy are fathers who have a difficult time in earning respect from their sons, and being a role model for them. Between, “Death of a Salesman,” and “Fences,” both protagonists, Willy and Troy both depict the role of a father in distinctive ways; however, in their struggle, Willy is the more sympathetic of the two.

l. 5). We can also read in the text that the father is divorced but he still wants to have a good relationship with his son. “…he hadn’t wanted her back, hadn’t wanted much of anything really” (p. 2.l. 15). We don’t hear much about why the parents are divorced but maybe it is the fathers own fault. But even if it’s the fathers fault he still tries to make it good again. “when he looked at her she shook her head and looked away and at that moment he thought, maybe-maybe he could make this right” (p. 2.l. 19-20). The father is also a good and lovely father. The father loves his son really much and cares for him. Maybe the father is a good father even if he is divorced. “…when the boy came running into the living room he threw him over his shoulder, careful not to hit his head on the corner of the TV” (p. 2. L. 16-17). As when can read in the text the father takes his son to place where there father was with his father. He takes him there because the father had a good time with his father there. We can also see that the father says many thing that his father used to say. An example is. ”This is it, kid, the old man would say whenever they turned off the main road, you excited? Every year ...”Almost there,” he said to the little boy next to him. “You excited?”(p. 2 l.

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs in the world because the parents have to understand and guide their parents. In “Ode on the Whole Duty of Parents” by Frances Cornford, a child explains about how the parent’s role changes throughout different points of the his or her’s life. On the other hand, the “Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad” by Jan Heller Levi is about a child explaining how she had a father that was not the best, but tries his best to be one. Sadly, their relationship is strained due some problems between the child and father. In both these poems, parenting is shown through the ways the parents will treat their child and their emotions toward the child.

It isn’t until the third stanza that speaker begins to see and have visions of his father which causes him to react. The stanza begins with the speaker’s vision, “It was my father I saw this morning waving to me from the trees. I almost called to him, until I came close enough to see the shovel, leaning where I had left it, in the flickering, deep green shade”(1-5). In this short, quote it can be seen as the speaker is spooked or has seen a ghost of his father. It can be argued that something out in the nature has made the speaker convinced that his father was waving which isn’t possible because he is deceased. There can be many reasons why the speaker

The mood presented in the last half of the poem gives an insight to the pain that was felt. When it talked about how they felt worthless it was explaining how they felt like they weren’t good enough (19-20). Not only that but if they were only good enough to consider to be his child, then maybe he would have stayed. This explains the guilty mood because they took upon them to be responsible for their dad’s disappearance. Which further explain the broken heart that still remains. Despite all the pain and broken heart that still lingers, the father is given a second chance to make things right (23). In that sense, it means that it’s not too late for him to be active in their life and fix the pain that was caused. However, that didn’t happen so the depressing mood further develop. The lines that say, “Wait, I forgot. You can’t tell me that,” confirm that he never took the second chance and made the pain grow