The Complex Relationship Between Father And Son In 'A Story' By Li-Young Lee

In the poem “A Story” by Li-Young Lee, Lee depicts the complex relationship between a father and his son through the son’s entreaties for a story. Lee uses emotional appeals as well as literary devices such as imagery, metaphor, and hyperbole to depict the different point of views between a father and a son. The story is told in a third person point of view which creates a scenario for the reader to evaluate. The italicized sentences in the poem shows actual dialogue.
In the poem, Lee states that the son is wishing for a funny new story, one that the boy’s father hasn’t told him yet. The father is having coming up with one and fulfilling the son’s wish. You know this because Lee states in lines 6-9, “in a room full of books in a world full