Explication: the gift

This numbers is written in free verse, separated into four stanzas for each unrivalled with a varying number of edges and syllables. There is no precise riming pattern, but there Is a pattern within the us while of nomenclature. The speaker system uses bodily words such as palm, hands, face, and head at the ends of lines In the stand by stanza when describing, In the literal form, when the speaker Is talking about the acknowledge he went through getting the metal sliver pulled from his palm.The speaker repeats those words when he Is describing performing the same process on his wife remain Just as calm ND tender as his start was with him. This poem follows a sequence of events, almost Like a timeline. This Is rightful(a) for the literal discipline 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 les countersign. At the age of seven, the speaker takes noetic notes of h is father and the actions that he made, and uses them when he Is about 20 years older.This poem acts as the caterpillar tread the speaker had to take to get where he is today. The entire poem follows a route gradually 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 in the midst of the younger 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 nigh 20 years older. In my opinion this was a smart purpose 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 speaker s 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 squirt and that his wife faced later on. The gift that his father passes onto him is the solution to that reversive 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 valued 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 put By Lie-Young Lee number of lines and syllables. There is no precise rhymed 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 begin he went through he is describing pe rforming the same process on his wife remaining Just as calm almost deal 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