Compare And Contrast Remember And Poem At Thirty Nine

Rather than a defined period of someone’s life, childhood is an abstract period created only when one can look back at it. In order to explore themes such as remembrance and childhood, it is crucial to consider linguistic features and the communications of emotions or feelings such as warmth. It is believed that copious poems all portray the subject of innocence of the younger; poems including ‘Prayer Before Birth’, ‘Half Past Two’, ‘Piano’ and ‘Hide And Seek’ are no exception to being exemplars of poems which typify the theme of remembrance and childhood, which could be further supported by the poems ‘Remember’ and ‘Poem at Thirty-Nine’. Seeing as that they all convey their memories in conflicting ways with child-like characteristics, each …show more content…
This age is presented as significant in view of the fact that she is at the verge of forty and had finally realized something about her father. She then carries her expressions in her poem in terms of realization and focuses on the relationship between a father and daughter. The starting line “how I miss my father” already clearly shows that Walker wishes to be with him despite the fact that he is absent. While “writing deposit slips and checks”, Walker reminds of her father for the reason that he taught her how to manage her savings, which emphasizes the extraordinary behavior and her fathers caring of her financial well being. Money is said to be important in this poem, as her father has decided to teach at a very young age. Ignoring the fact that money is important, Walker refers to it as “bits of paper” which juxtaposes the idea before hand, completely downgrading it to the status of scrap paper. This can be seen as irony and contrasting the two ideas. As further she describes her father such as his “dancing in a yoga meditation”, the speaker concludes that she wishes her father to be proud of her achievements she have made without him, when she says, “he would have grown to admire the woman I’ve become”. The two poems may have similarities being that they both concentrate on remembering a family member, they may have differences; for instance, ‘Poem at Thirty-Nine’ chooses to bring her back to her childhood whereas ‘Piano’ does not choose to remember but is made to remember against his own will. Lawrence gives signs of sadness whilst Walker refers her memories to