Poetry Analysis--A Story by Lee by Sheila Curlin on Prezi.
Lee was influenced by poets Li Bo and Tu Fu. His poetry is known for his use of silence and personal experience or memories. Due to his dramatic childhood, Lee's poems often focus on the themes of alienation and identity. He used many of his poems as a way to pass on stories.The poem “A Story” written be Li- Young Lee conveys the complex father and son relationship showing their connection through literary devices while the son is trying to get his father to tell another story.This poem is written in third person narrative by an ominous voice telling the fathers thought process.The narrator begins the poem saying, “Sad is the man who is asked for a story and.He gossips like my grandmother, this man with my face, and I could stand amused all afternoon in the Hon Kee Grocery, amid hanging meats he chops: roast pork cut from a hog hung by nose and shoulders, her entire skin burnt crisp, flesh I know to be sweet, her shining face grinning up at ducks dangling single file, each pierced by black hooks through breast, bill, and steaming from a hole.
Li-Young Lee’s poetry draws on his memories of the refugee experience and stories recounted by family members. He explores the question of individual identity in a world where people have been.Connie Broderick Structure The structure of this poem is that the story the child is complaining to his father for a different story in italics, while the rest of the poem is in regular print. This structure takes apart the poem and practically puts a new one into it. Throughout.
Li-Young Lee 1957- Indonesian-born American poet and memoirist. The following entry presents an overview of Lee's career through 2001. Though born in Indonesia, Lee is reckoned among America's.
