Li-Young Lee’s‚ “The Gift” unquestionably communicates several ideas‚ some rather direct‚ and others buried within the rhetoric and composition of the poem. Although the meaning (of the poem) may be left to interpretation‚ one of the most prominent concepts of the story‚ in my belief‚ is the gift of love and consequent tradition of offering it to loved ones. In the beginning of the poem‚ the narrator describes his father comforting him in the painful situation of removing a metal splinter from his
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The Gift by Li-Young Lee is a fascinating poem about the particular‚ indescribable relationship between a boy and his father. In the poem‚ Lee reflects on his past‚ detailing one precise moment in time when he received the most fearsome of splinters. It was at this time when Lee´s father sat the boy down‚ and recited for him a story‚ so as to calm him and clear his mind of any worry. As Lee recounts‚ the voice of his father that night remains embedded in his mind and he recalls his father´s hands
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“Rose” In this book of poems‚ Lee is unafraid to show emotion‚ especially when writing about his father or his wife. The images Lee finds‚ such as the rose and the apple‚ can refer to the life-span of a human. Life (on the tree branch)‚ falling off tree (life- span)‚ then how death is portrayed by using the ground as the end of life. Even his father’s blindness and death can become beautiful. From what I gathered from the poems in Rose‚ was Lee grew up in a strong tight-knit family
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Allondra Delagarza February 12‚ 2015 P: 5th “A Story” By Li-Young Lee “A Story” by Young Lee writes about a young boy who wants his father to tell him a story but he doesn’t want to hear the same story over and over again. He wants to her a new story. The poem is written about a five year old boy and talking to his “baba.” Ba is the Chinese word for “dad” and “baba” translates to daddy. The poem can be told through the boy’s perspective or the father’s perspective
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different people throughout his/her life. A child learns to protect his siblings‚ to respect his mother‚ and to look up to his father. However‚ depending on what has happened between the child and the other person. In the poem “A Story” by poet Li-Young-Lee‚ he uses the third person point of view and structure of the poem to define the complex relationship of a son and his father. Children are known for becoming entertained very quickly as well as getting bored easily. “Sad is the man who is asked
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Time has the tendency to impact everyone and everything. In the poem “A Story” Li-Young Lee reveals the intimate yet short lived relationship of the father and the son through the use of dialogue‚ conflict and point of view to hint at the inevitably of children branching out and possibly surpassing their parents. Emphasized through the differing perspectives of the father and son Lee highlights the innocence of young children and parents and their changing relationship over time. The speaker depicting
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Nathan Egert Mr. Maffey 1H - 6/8 25 April 2013 Reader Response - "My Indigo" "My Indigo" is a featured poem from Li-Young Lee’s 1993 book "Rose". The poem is a relation between Li-Young Lee‚ and the history of the Indigo also known as Indigofera tinctoria. The poem strings together Lee’s search for his identity as a Chinese-American‚ and the origin and value of the Indigo. The Indigo originated in India where it was turned into an industry in 300 BC‚ and then it was later discovered and later
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In Li-Young Lee’s “A Story”‚ the complicated relationship between the father and son stems from the son desiring something from the father(literally‚ a story)‚ but the father is unable to provide this for the son‚ which leads to the father having a disconnection with reality. The author conveys this through characterization of the father and son through diction and non-linear storytelling‚ all to allude to a deeper meaning behind the son’s wanting of a story. We first see the conflict between
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years and counting. With each second that fades by‚ the parent watches his grip on his child slowly slip. In “A Story”‚ Li-Young Lee uses poetic diction‚ structure‚ and point of view to convey the complex relationship between a father and his son. Frustrated and hopeless a father “rubs his chin‚ scratches his ear‚” in search for the perfect story to appease the demands of his son. Lee uses poetic diction to express the father’s frustration with his inability to “come up with [a story]” and the sons’s
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The relationship between father and son is very important. Fathers are the ones that are suppose to sculpt their sons into young gentlemen. However‚ this is sometimes a struggle as seen in Li- Young Lee’s poem‚ “A Story”. Lee uses literary devices‚ such as point of view and structure‚ to convey the complex relationship of father and son. The point of view allows the reader to see almost every aspect of the situation occurring. As the reader you get to see this from a third person point of view
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