The Father of My Country (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Diane Wakoski
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Children, Family or family life, Memory, Parents and children, Abandoned children, Fathers, Birds, Presidents
The Poem
“The Father of My Country” is a long poem of more than 170 lines in which an adult woman looks back and tries to come to terms with what she feels was her father’s desertion. The poem is in the confessional mode—it deals with a private subject (in this case, family problems) in a public way. There is a feeling of taboo about the subject, and though the poem is not necessarily true in a literal sense, it does give the impression of being drawn from life.
Although the poem is quite long, many of the lines are short, some of them consisting of a single...
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