Packet #3 is the last part of the poetry packet. You need to read the two versions of "My Father's Love Letters" then answer the Discussion Points:
I. Meaning
II. Imagery
III. Speaker and Voice
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1. This poem is about a wife who left her son and husband after the husband was beating her. The father asks his son to write the same letter to his mother every Friday asking her to come back. This poem has a very sad mood. It puts the father and son in a very hopeless light and makes it seem as if the wife will never return. Besides the poem just telling of the family's situation, it also shows how sad, lonely, and quiet the father and son are to each other. It explores the emotions of the father and son and also shows the son guessing how these letters made his mother feel.
2. Images: sunset...toolshed, flowers...man, carpenters...feet.
The image of the sunset and the mans apron give a feeling of loneliness inside the house. The images make the father and son seem very far apart. The image of the flowers show that the wife still cares and that she is off somewhere far away. The images in the poem deepen the sadness of the story. When it goes into description of the father's apron it makes it seem as if he has nothing to focus on but his work, and it seems as if his life is completely tangled up in his work. ("extension cords coiled around his feet")
3. The voice of the speaker is a mature young child who seems fed up with his father's sadness. He seems tired of writing the same old love letter, and angry at his mother for causing him to have to write these letters again and again ("(I)...sometimes wanted to slip in something bad."). The speaker of the story seems male to me as a daughter would most likely want her mother around, but something that strikes as a feminine speaker is there common notation on flowers ("...desert flowers...","...roses and hyacinth..."). Also, I feel that a daughter would have a harder time forgiving their father for beating their mother, and the speaker seems to be pretty over this fact, which hints to him being male. The speaker seems about 13 when they were writing the letters, but when they wrote the poem they seem much more mature and almost frustrated that they spent so much time writing these letters. They also seem to think of the father as helpless and completely lonely. The distance of the time is significant because it shows how the writer is over the fact of their father beating the mother. Writing in the past shows how the person has grown and it shows how they feel for their father being completely abandoned.
1. a. This poem is about the speaker’s father, who had beat his wife and made her leave from him. This man is an expert engineer who works at the mill. Father asks the speaker to write a letter to his wife for him, because he doesn’t know how to write.
b. The poem tells and explains a story, which is about the speaker’s father. He tries to apologize and bring his wife back to home after beating her badly. He asks his son to write a letter to her for him due to a lacking skill in writing.
c. The poem deals with a figurative meaning by illustrating words such as mill, carpenter’s apron, nails, hammer which suggest what his job is. According to what he says, “He would beg, promising to never beat her again.” we can infer that he is trying to apologize to his wife.
2. a. Concrete floor, coiled extension cords, desert flower.
b. Some of images establish setting such as desert flower. It implies that his wife is now far away from him.
c. Those of images create and deepen the meaning of poem. For instance, concrete floor indicates their arid and loveless life without mother. The home, where was used to be filled with love and laughter, now altered to a place where lacks vitality. Coiled extension cords not only imply the father’s job, but also suggest his messed-up life. A life with out his wife would be very hard and difficult. Desert flower tells us the memories of his wife, and it shows mother’s remaining interest towards her family.
3. a. The voice of the poem is a matured teenager who truly understands his father’s sorrow.
b. I suppose the speaker is male, since he feels sympathy towards his father, even he violently beat his wife. If the speaker is female, she would never forgive his father, because a daughter feels greater sympathy towards her mother than towards her father.
The speaker is around age 16 to 17 who can understand father’s situation.
c. The time distance in the poem is significant, because it show the completion of an action. It shows that the beating was happened a long time ago, and time passed since then. Both father and the speaker are grown up now and father is apologizing for his misbehavior.
1. this poem is about a long distance relationship between a husband and his wife. the wife left her husband because he was beating her and it left the husband depressed. the father makes his son write the same love letters every friday to his mother about how he wants her to come back and promises never to beat her again. The poem makes the mother seem stronger than the dad because it is the dad that keeps sending love letters. it is a sad peom because it seem as it is hopeless for the father to have the women he loves back.
2. " who would sent postcard of desert flower "
the mother would send poscard of desert flower, which to me means that she shows him that she is very far away, somewhere he would not be able to find her. " his carpenter's apron always bulged with old nails, a claw hammer" this shows wha kind of person he was. he was obviously a rough person who knew how to use his nails and hammers well.
3. the voice of the speaker is very sad and almost hopeless! it is the voice of the son or daughter. somehow i feel as it would be a girl speaking because, the father makes her write love letter and girls are more sensitive that way. the speaker seems as if he didnt want to write anymore however she wants to help her father through this and is hopeless as well. although it shouldnt be that way, the poem makes it feel like its all the mothers fault that the family is depressed.
I. Meaning
A. This event is about a daughter writing her dads feelings in a letter for him to his ex-wife. It captures the act of the daughter listening to what the father wants to say and then writing it down.
B. This poem shows you how the father is still in love with his ex and how his love is still strong. It explores a sad mood because the father seems hopeless. It also shows the fathers weakness because he needs his daughter to write down his feelings.
C. This poem shows how men at some times are weaker than the women that seem to be inferior to them.
II. Imagery
A. The father beating the mother, the child writing the letters, and the father stressing about what he wanted to say in the letters.
B. The father stressing and the child writing makes me invision a dining room seen with both of them sitting at the table.
C. The images show the father as a weak character.
III. Speaker and Voice
A. The voice is a teenage girl who is the daughter of the man. She seems to have a high maturity level.
B. The speaker is a teenage female who is probably an adult now but is reflecting on the times of the letters.
C. The distance is significant because the daughter probably didn't understand the significance of her writing the letter. She probably never noticed her father's emotional weakness.
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