artandculture.com) that Li-Young Lee's father was imprisoned by the Sukarno regime in Jakarta, Indonesia, during the time Li-Young Lee was an infant. The Sukarno fascist regime hated Chinese, and Li-Young Lee's father (who had been a personal physician to Mao Zedong) got caught up in that vicious hateful moment of jailing Chinese people in Indonesia. That time in his dad's life might have also been a time for reflection, a time when he re-dedicated himself to being the best father he could be. The tiny flame could be a flame of freedom for the reader, no matter what his father's motives were, no matter what the poem was really supposed to mean. In the book American Poets Since World War II, Fourth Series, Joseph Conte of State University of New York (Conte 1996) writes that Li-Young Lee is "a poet unafraid of exceeding tenderness, and agile enough to walk the tightrope between anger and fear." In this poem, there is a tightrope between the fear of being injured or killed by one's carelessness (as in getting the splinter in the first place), and perhaps the fear of being punished by a strong father who has warned you about being careful around metal shavings and splinters.
And then the poem takes the reader from the boyhood incident with the splinter to a husband who is now helping his wife by removing a splinter. Does the husband sing a low song like a deep well with dark water? The reader doesn't know. The reader is touched by that intimate moment with the father, the passage of time, and love is within the lines of the poem throughout.
In the unceasing rush of the modern world," the Art & Culture review of this poem explains, "everything conspires to prevent meditation, awareness, or faith in anything...
/This desire, perfection./Your closed eyes my extinction./Now I've forgotten my/idea.... (Lee, 2002, This Room and Everything in it) Each work demonstrates how easy it is to become complacent about the mundane character of even the most sincere of emotional expression, that of sensual love and then makes an attempt to etch something that is essential to life into memory, as Lee was taught to do by his father. Lee, as a
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