A summative analysis of Li-Young Lee's poem "Persimmons" and Eamon Grennan's poem "Pause". Entitled "Summative Analysis"
When you attempt to find a solution to any kind of problem, it is best to look at it from different perspectives. When two poems focus on a common theme with the same familial relationships, different points of view must certainly give great insight on the topic at hand. For instance, in "Persimmons" and "Pause", the reader can clearly understand the vast love in the child-father relationship within each poem. "Persimmons" is told from the perspective of the child in the relationship, which goes on early in the start of the poem (e.g. the first stanza) to reveal some of his past experiences, experiences we can use to better understand his relationship with the father. The author conveys a mood of pleasant nostalgia to the reader, reminiscing on the warmth that his father cast on him. Comparable to "Persimmons", "Pause" speaks from the perspective of a father towards the subject of his daughter. The father in "Pause" recalls memories of his daughter on a winter morning, as he waits for her at the bus stop (lines 10 and 21). The author definitively describes every moment as if every second he spends with his daughter is history in the making. The author is a man who loves his life and embraces life's unfolding events (line 20, "intrusions of love and disaster") which is parallel to the tone of the author in "Persimmons" who soaks up the wise words of his father and never looks negatively upon the events that formed his life.
The intense imagery surrounding "Persimmons" is unmistakable. Imagery reaches out at us to appeal to all the senses we use everyday in our lives. It is this sense of realism that gives imagery such power over the reader. In the opening of the poem (line 2) the author is...
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Summative Analysis
It was a pleasure to read your essay in which you compare Li-Young Lee's "Persimmons" and Eamon Grennan's "Pause." You've done a very good job in illustrating how the imagery and symbolism in these two poems effectively supports the poets' message. When reading these poems on the web, I couldn't help but think of my father and how true the themes of the poems were. Your point about getting more out of each poem by reading them together was insightful and cogent. Wonderful work!
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