Father and Son (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Stanley Kunitz
- First Published: 1944
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Love or romance, Fathers, Death or dying, Time, Skeleton
Perhaps all imaginative writing is autobiographical. The more closely such writings details conform to verifiable facts in the author's life, the easier it is for readers to see an equivalence between reality and art. Yet such a view contains a hazard to readers of fiction based largely on fact: Writers are at liberty to veer at will from fact to fancy, and when they do, readers may be deceived.
“Father and Son” is Kunitz's best-known and most-anthologized poem. Written as World War II was erupting in Europe, it is the story, which Kunitz says came to him in a dream, about a...
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