Poem At Thirty Nine Poem Analysis

The Relationship Individuals Have With Their Parents Is One Of The Strongest That They Will Ever Experience In Their Lives.

Parent and child relationships are very important and that they form the person you are. I will be exploring “Poem at Thirty-Nine” by Alice Walker, “A Mother in a Refugee Camp” by Chinua Achebe and “Piano” by D.H. Lawrence. The poems that I'll be mentioning about is “Once Upon a Time” by Gabriel Okara, “Follower” by Seamus Heaney and “You’re” by Sylvia Plath. I will be writing about how the relationships between the child and the parents are the strongest.

The poem “Poem at Thirty-Nine” is about the relationship between a daughter and her father. It is about how a daughter misses her father who passed away. She talks about his personality and how he was always there for her. In this poem, the daughter is thirty-nine years old. In this poem, the persona is relatively sad about losing her father. The poem “Piano” is about a relationship between a son and his mother. He talks about

The persona’s father was more of a teacher than a parent, he taught her the way of living. We know this because she writes “ even in high school had a savings account”. This also suggests that money was a very big priority to them, although earlier in the same stanza she writes “bits of paper” over here she is referring to money which is ironic. She talks about how the general things she does in her life trigger her father’s memory. We know this because she says “writing deposit slips and checks/ I think of him” . The second stanza shows that money is important to their lives. The main theme of the second stanza is money. According to Walker, her father was more than a father. Her father was also a mentor to her. She writes “ I think of him. He taught me how”. This quotation suggests that she is influenced by her father and that even the simplest things like writing checks trigger memories of her