Response To A Poet's Poem

In the poem A Story the author paints a picture of a father's love for his son, and gives us a window into the father's mind, as he contemplates the future demise of their relationship. The author uses a plethora of literary devices to leave us as readers with a feeling of emptiness, and displays the theme being about the inevitability of adulthood, as it slowly draws the curtain of youth away. To start, this poem is a free verse. There is no solid rhyme structure nor rhythm structure present throughout. This gives the poem a sense of realism, as if it is true to life. This makes every event in this poem hit us as readers that much harder, for we have the sense it is more true to a story, rather than a poem. This also creates a sense of uneasiness, poems with rhyme structures have a solid start and finish, with every line fitting in place. This poem creates apprehension, as there is no real start or finish, and every line feels out of place. So even at times when the poem feels gentle and ignorant, the stanza dissonance brings the underlying tension to the front of the mind. …show more content…
The beginning starts with the little boy pleading to hear a story from his father, and while it is from the perspective of the narrator it seems to be only in 2nd person. While as the ending of the poem draws closer, the perspective of the poem seems to change to 3rd person, as the narrator describes the situation the father is in, rather than restating his own thoughts. There is also a very interesting line in this poem, as the father thinks to himself, “soon….the boy will give up on his father” although this is a reference to the boy giving up on hearing his dad tell a story, this also foreshadows the fact that the boy will one day give up on his father, and leave