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reflection:
Great literature has universal themes that can apply and relate to everyone. Although this poem may not be speaking about the most obvious aspect of human nature it make you think about the little things that have big effects. Like that special moment when you realize you are treating your child the exact same way your mother treated you. I think that it is a great piece of literature because it is talking about the aspect of human nature. After you have read the poem you have realized it that much more. It almost has a depressing universal theme to it because the negative traits, characteristics, bad habits, personal views, and beliefs that parents have get pasted on to their children with a snowballing effect. By using the word, "fuck" in the first sentence Larkin not only grabs the readers attention, but also makes a dramatic, bold statement. He creates the common picture of parents by saying they are soppy-stern because all parents want to appear strong but at the same time they are dealing with the stress of daily lives with high emotions. It is like in the movies when you see a wife angrily slap her husband than right after realizing what she has done starts crying and becomes very apologetic. It is like a flip flop because the two emotions go hand in hand. "Man hands misery to man" is the main point of the poem or the defining sentence, which he uses humor to soften.
simply recipes:
The story," Simply Recipes" by Thien starts by with the son stating what his father taught him like cooking rice just as Larkins poem states parents pass on their ways to their children. It goes more into detail about the moments where traits and characteristics were pasted down from parents to children and the memories that happen. The father was the sons idol he wanted to follow in his foot steps every day until he witnesses his older brother being beat. The son is torn after watching the incident with his father and older brother because he doesn't want to punish his kids in the same way. It is similar to Larkins poem in the way that the father "knows... that i will be unable to separate one part of him from another". The son can't just be pasted the father's good qualities he will learn all the faults and a little extra.
Great literature has universal themes that can apply and relate to everyone. Although this poem may not be speaking about the most obvious aspect of human nature it make you think about the little things that have big effects. Like that special moment when you realize you are treating your child the exact same way your mother treated you. I think that it is a great piece of literature because it is talking about the aspect of human nature. After you have read the poem you have realized it that much more. It almost has a depressing universal theme to it because the negative traits, characteristics, bad habits, personal views, and beliefs that parents have get pasted on to their children with a snowballing effect. By using the word, "fuck" in the first sentence Larkin not only grabs the readers attention, but also makes a dramatic, bold statement. He creates the common picture of parents by saying they are soppy-stern because all parents want to appear strong but at the same time they are dealing with the stress of daily lives with high emotions. It is like in the movies when you see a wife angrily slap her husband than right after realizing what she has done starts crying and becomes very apologetic. It is like a flip flop because the two emotions go hand in hand. "Man hands misery to man" is the main point of the poem or the defining sentence, which he uses humor to soften.
simply recipes:
The story," Simply Recipes" by Thien starts by with the son stating what his father taught him like cooking rice just as Larkins poem states parents pass on their ways to their children. It goes more into detail about the moments where traits and characteristics were pasted down from parents to children and the memories that happen. The father was the sons idol he wanted to follow in his foot steps every day until he witnesses his older brother being beat. The son is torn after watching the incident with his father and older brother because he doesn't want to punish his kids in the same way. It is similar to Larkins poem in the way that the father "knows... that i will be unable to separate one part of him from another". The son can't just be pasted the father's good qualities he will learn all the faults and a little extra.