In the poem “A Story” by Li-Young Lee conveys the complex relationship between a father and son showing the innocent supplication of the boy looking to the thoughtfully distant father for stories. Through different literary techniques the poet conveys the father and son separately to show both sides of the relationship and give us a closer view to what their relationship is and will become. After analyzing the poem I saw a how the poet used different points of view to portray the relationship between
their fictional stories. Every single moment in one’s life influences the next. This is most apparent when one creates a work of art. This is because art is a chemical bond created from experience and imagination. As with most writers and artist, Li-Young Lee’s own experiences helped him mold his creative expressions, like in his poem “My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud.” His family fled Indonesia as Chinese political exiles. These experiences put an immense weight on Li-Young Lee’s father.
For children, everything is monstrous and terrifying, and a mere scratch could feel like a battle wound. Therefore, the wisdom of parents is pivotal. In the Li Young Lee poem The Gift, the speaker recalls a childhood experience where his father’s gentleness and soothing voice alter a frightful circumstance to a moment of love. Through this recollection, the speaker realizes his father’s wisdom and manner were necessary for his transition to adulthood, suggesting that the bond between parent and child
is also based on a novel or short story that somehow gives a different perspective and impression when it is made into a film. “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” by Ang Lee is a 115 minute film that portrays martial arts heroines who seeks knowledge from a humble master. This film is based on a martial arts novel by Wang Du Lu and featured with international casts, including Choi Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, and Zhang Ziyi. The story begins when a male martial arts hero, Li Mu Bai, (Choi Yun Fat) decides to
In his poem collection Book Of My Nights, Li-Young Lee explores the concepts of death and the night. However, the images and recurring language that he uses keeps his tone just above melancholic in a state I will call hollowness. This hollowness is a sense of smallness in the world, and perhaps the universe, but also communicates a sense of emptiness and, to that extent, readiness to be filled. The sparse metaphors that Lee uses supports this tone by incorporating distance, endings, and the capacity
Confessional Poems; Jeffery F. L. Partridge’s quote about Li-Young Lee’s work entitled, “Eating Alone”; Eudora Welty’s “Petrified Man”; Evelyn Avery’s quote about Bernard Malamud’s Ethnic Writings; Beverly Lyon Clark’s