Explication: the gift

This poem is written in free verse, separated into four stanzas each with a varying military issue of lines and syllables. There is no precise rhyming pattern, but there Is a pattern within the usage of words. The vocalizer examples bodily words such as palm, hands, face, and head at the ends of lines In the second stanza when describing, In the literal form, when the speaker Is talking about the experience he went through getting the metal split up pulled from his palm.The speaker repeats those words when he Is describing performing the same process on his wife remaining Just as quiet ND tender as his draw was with him. This poem follows a sequence of events, almost Like a timeline. This Is true for the literal practice as well as the illustrationical reading of the poem. The gift that Is passed down from the speakers father to him, and indeed utilized on his wife, Is a life lesson. At the age of seven, the speaker takes mental notes of his father and the actions that he ma de, and uses them when he Is about 20 years older.This poem acts as the path the speaker had to take to get where he is today. The entire poem follows a route little by little the speaker goes wrought life learning from his father. This has one exception the third stanza. This stanza, directly in the middle of the poem, acts as a dividing line between the young and older years of the speakers life. It has 7 lines, (also the age of the speaker in the beginning) and it also doesnt really flow in the poem.The 2 stanzas prior talk about what happened to him when he was 7, and then the last line of the 3rd stanza and the last stanza talk about life when the speaker was approximately 20 years older. In my opinion this was a smart decision to have these sections divided cause it shows how there is a difference between learning something and using it to your advantage later on. The central metaphor for this poem is that the gift that the speakers father passes down to him is a life lesson . The speaker learns this lesson at an early age and uses it throughout the rest of his life.The metal splinter is a problem that the speaker has faced once when he was a child and that his wife faced later on. The gift that his father passes onto him is the solution to that returning problem. His father teaches him the solution to this obviously important problem and cherishes it. When the speaker says, l did what a child does/ when hes given something to keep, its clear that the speakers father wanted his son to have and use this lesson as much as the speaker wanted to be seen as an Image of his father.Explication the gift BY Nannette Explication 2 The Gift By Lie-Young Lee act of lines and syllables. There is no precise rhyming pattern, but there is a hands, face, and head at the ends of lines in the second stanza when describing, in he literal form, when the speaker is talking about the experience he went through he is describing performing the same process on his wife remainin g Just as calm almost like a timeline.This is true for the literal reading as well as the metaphorical reading of the poem. The gift that is passed down from the speakers father to him, and then utilized on his wife, is a life lesson. At the age of seven, the speaker takes mental notes of his father and the actions that he made, and uses them when he is and use this lesson as much as the speaker wanted to be seen as an image of his