¶ … Father's Love Letters
Poetry is unique in literary art in that it can portray any emotion and any tone. Even in a limited space, more emotion and meaning can be conveyed in a few poetic lines than some authors can convey in hundreds of pages. Yusef Komunyakaa's sad and depressing poem "My Father's Love Letters" is a prime example of the potential emotional strength that can be shown in a few lines. In Komunyakaa's fairly short piece, the young narrator of the poem explains to the reader about how his or her father tries to write a weekly series of love letters to a woman who has gone away, the child's mother. This particular poem is a type of narrative which functions to tell a story as well as to perform within the framework of a traditional poem, although it does not have either a uniform meter or any rhyming pattern to speak of. The poet uses tone and imagery in order to tell the story of his father's failed romance and his inability to change into a decent man.
Perhaps the most important aspect of Komunyakaa's poem is the tone of voice which the first-person narrator takes in the piece. He or she is evidently a child or at the very least a teen as they still live at home with the father. The child seems to be happy with the life that they currently live. From the text it seems that there is only the child and the father in the house and this is a living arrangement which is perfectly suited to the child, or at least he or she claims to be happy this way. The child is trying to inform...
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