Li young lee poems analysis bayonet

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The common theme of this collection is that the poet's thirst for meaning and God in this world leads him to remember the divinized imagery of his parents in his childhood memories of them.

For example, in "The Cleaver," the speaker's father gossips like his own mother, that shows a direct parallel to this theme, but even more so later in the poem, when the boy eats shellfish, he notices that it was he was connected with the food in a deep, intimate way.

So in this poem, the boy is shown the secret meaning of life by his parents, that life survives by the death of lower life forms that we call animals.

This seems perfectly obvious, but it is the function of poetry to allow people to see the magic quality of ordinary