Death of My Father Essay

“Forgiving My Father”, by Lucille Clifton are two extremely melancholy poems that speak of the despondency of two daughters. “Under the Lemon Tree” features a daughter in a great deal of pain over the loss of her mother 6 years earlier. The daughter suggest that her mother had left this world too soon, with a lot more life ahead of her. “Forgiving My Father” by Lucille Clifton demonstrates a slightly different viewpoint of a similar situation. This poem speaks of how the shortcomings of a father…

Today, I'm going to convince you that the death penalty (Capital Punishment) should be abolished. This subject became important to me when I was in high school. Timothy McVeigh had bombed the Oklahoma City federal offices and killed more than 100 people. June 11, 2011 he was put to death by lethal injection in Indiana. Most of you might remember his name. I remember the parents and loved ones of his victims speaking out that lethal injection wasn't a tough enough punishment. On BBC news, many of…

all of the things that make up who you are and how others view you plays a key role in the novel Night. Throughout the novel, the main character, Eliezer, faces many problems that affect his identity. Many of the things that he witnessed, such as death, hangings, and the dehumanization of Jews at the camps changed the way Eliezer thought about and viewed certain things. Throughout the course of the book, Eliezer’s identity changes negatively greatly due to the situations that he experienced at…

Seamus Heaney speaks about a family tragedy, the death of his younger brother Christopher. He tries to explain an emotion that is weird and hard to articulate, and that is grief. Heaney uses a detached tone to attempt to describe it, the tone represents how challenging grieving actually is. With a funeral, there are made up “roles” everyone which the death affects follow. This family, and others are not following any sort of script. After the death of Heaney’s brother, he is forced to grow up,…

Henri Cole’s poem “Swans” speaks about the passing of a father and the impact it has on his children, through his use of imagery of the scene to reflect the internal thoughts of his characters, symbolism as manifestations of their traits, and similes to describe their emotions. From the onset, Cole’s word choice of “must have looked,” (1) implies that everything is not how it seems, thus the calm nature of “ordinary/ tourists feeding . . . swans,” (1-2) is the opposite of the speaker’s feelings…

Harwood’s “Father and Child” and “The Violets” enhances my understanding of the inevitability of maturation as a result of a loss of innocence and the acceptance of mortality. Harwood’s representation of these profound ideas through the combination of poetic devices and a reflective tone retains a timeless significance and offers the reader an extensive, relevant and enduring exploration Harwood’s analysis of the universal concept of loss of innocence is examined through poetic devices in…

Inheritance and Revenge Over the course of time, grudge, revenge, and inheritance have been key elements leading to conflict, and ultimately death. In William Shakespeare’s theatrical play, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Prince Hamlet, Prince Fortinbras, and Laertes have all lost their fathers due to tragic circumstances. Death, sexual promiscuity, and treachery permeate the entire play. Despite the dark plot of this play, it has become known as one of Shakespeare’s most famous literary work.…

Righteousness and Responsibility What does being a father really mean? The complex role of fatherhood is explored in “Those Winter Sundays” and “My Papa's Waltz.” The two fathers in the poems have extremely different ideas about what being a father truly entails. The distinct differences in the father’s level of responsibility is evident in the time of day in which the poem occurs, the atmosphere they create within their home, their morals, and the appearance of their hands and tasks they…

reminiscing of his father and his hometown back in northeastern Ohio. At the start, Sanders introduces the cherished wooden box that holds the buckeyes, in specific, along with other memories of his father, nature, and his hometown. Sure enough, the central image of this essay is the wooden box that acts as a safekeeping of Sanders’ past. With the use of rhetoric and literary devices, Sanders is able to emphasize that the wooden box symbolizes two opposite ends; life and death. As an author,…

complex. As opposed to Barker´s "To My Mother", this poem refers to author´s father. The form of villanelle is observed by constant repetition of the title and opening line of the poem. A motif of parent is used once again, but with a different perception and reason. Unlike the revolutionary and sentimental poem for mother and as was observed, also for Irish nation, filled with faith and devotion,…