The Twins (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Bukowski
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Elegy
- Genres: Poetry, Elegy
- Subjects: Values, Parents and children, Fathers, Death or dying, Inheritance or succession, Bereavement or grief, Twins or multiple-birth siblings, Mortality, Scarecrows, Clothing or dress
The Poem
“The Twins” is a forty-three-line poem written in free verse and loosely divided into four parts, within which there are several stanzaic forms. The title is not intended to help readers anticipate the matter of the poem; rather, it facilitates a moment of unanticipated recognition in the last quarter when one realizes that the twins alluded to are in fact the poet and the poet’s father.
Many readers will recognize the familiar division between a parent and child, where, as in this case, father and son rebuke each other for not honoring the other’s...
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