Poem Analysis Of Young-Lee's Life
The first stanza of this poem illustrates life is a lonely cycle, and as a child Young-Lee learned to be hopeful for a better future. Lee Young-Lee is left alone as a child. This loneliness is reflected through the verb tense of words within the first stanza, for example the word ‘alone’ comes before ‘time’ which suggests that Young-Lee as a human being is alone, but in time he is also alone because even if he has his parents for some time in his life, he will eventually have to live life independently not through his parents. The stanza reflects Young-Lee’s childhood being introduced to loneliness and his response reflects the syntactic structure reconstructing his childhood. The syntactical usage of commas also illustrates the complexity