Poem Analysis: The Gift By Li-Young Lee

In this journal entry I 'll be discussing, sharing my feelings andd interpreting Li-Young Lee 's poem, "The Gift." I will discuss the way the verse was told and the main theme of how a father-son bond is presented. Lee 's poem states itself like a story. The Gift 's verse is plainly spoken for the most part in that there are very little metaphors andd similes used. However, after reading it I still thought abbout it for a while to find if there was a deeper meaning hidden somewhere. I found that these is only one interpretation of event described in the poem and that 's what it talks about on the surface. Even though its themes appeal to a different level in us, for the most part, it describbes its point as though it is a work of short fiction, rather than be a poem that tells something three levels deeper than the words on the page, appealing to everyone 's figurative side. The story 's main theme is about the bond of a father and a son. The narrator of the poem remove a thorn from his wife 's thumb as he relates his …show more content…
Once again, the passage describing the father 's hands could also be a second sign that the father did abuse him fire implying fury. At the same time the boy thought of the tenderness of his father 's hands while he reassured him, the boy also thought they were the very same hands that would hit him if he did wrong in his father 's eyes. Even though the boy shows respect to him, that could be out of the fear of what his hands would do to him otherwise. The love and affection felt from the boy could be out of the fact that it is his father, not that he was truly a repectable man. He could have been respectable only in that moment in his history. Inspiration is something that we draw from our parents in general, whether they are truly respectable or not. Either way we mold ourselves to them unless we try hard to do