In “A Story” by Li-Young Lee, the complex relationship between the father and the son is heightened due to the use of diction, oscillating points of views between the father and the son, and the use of time in structuring the poem. Lee uses these literary devices to reflect on the father’s worry that he will disappoint his son, which contributes to the theme that parents’ love can be shown with silence. Lee starts the poem with a somber two sentence stanza which takes on an observational point of
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
‘Out of Hiding’ by Li-Young Lee and ‘I Am’ by John Clare, are poems both centred on isolation. Each speaker is in a self-aware, isolated and contemplative space, looking for peace and solitude. However, each of these spaces have been created in differing ways. This essay will look further into these spaces and how they are created, and the ideas and themes surrounding each speaker. The title ‘Out of Hiding’ already has connotations of isolation and the poem’s speaker is clearly distant from other
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
presented in a positive way while some of these relationships are clearly strained. Three of these selections that showcase a father-child relationship include "My Father's Love Letter" by Yusef Komunyakaa, "Fishing" by A.E Stallings and "The Gift" by Li-Young Lee. Similar to the relationship Chelsea had with her father Norman in the movie "On Golden Pond", the relationship between the father and his daughter in the poem "Fishing" is very strange. Each of these selections showcase fathers and the different
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 retire of being a martial arts hero
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
questions/quotes in my reading, which are Toni Morrison “Recitatif”; A Confessional Poet, Anne Sexton; Lois Gordon’s quote about Adrienne Rich’s work; Devonney Looser’s question about Sylvia Plath’s 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
and celebrating this victory but they did not. Majority of them were less than enthusiastic, the citizens did not felt the same way as what the leaders felt. Reason behind was that the members representing Singapore in the Olympic team were namely, Li Jiawei, Wang Yuegu and Feng Tianwei. One common thing is that all the three of them had been won over by our government in its bid to attract foreign talents and in this case, became naturalised citizens only two years ago. This clearly
Creation of a Chinese brand can be a challenging task. Some companies have been very successful with their Chinese name having that the name not only sounds like their original name but as it also translates well. For instance coca cola or their Chinese name Ke Kou Ke Le, translates to “happiness in the mouth” and it sounds like coca cola. Pepsi cola or bai si ker le in Chinese gives out the meaning “a hundred joyous events”. Usually companies translate their names to mandarin or pudonghua. Even