Could any of u help analyize this poem?!!?

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Ok there's a poem called "Little Father" by Li-Young Lee, and i need help analyizing this poem so could any of u guys please help?! it'd be awesome cuz i have to make a storybook kind of thing on powerpoint and present it to my class -_- thanks =]
so here's the poem:

I buried my father
in the sky.
Since then, the birds
clean and comb him every morning
and pull the blanket up to his chin
every night.

I buried my father underground.
Since then, my ladders
only climb down,
and all the earth has become a house
whose rooms are the hours, whose doors
stand open at evening, receiving
guest after guest.
Sometimes I see past them
to the tables spread for a wedding feast.

I buried my father in my heart.
Now he grows in me, my strange son,
my little root who won’t drink milk,
little pale foot sunk in unheard-of night,
little clock spring newly wet
in the fire, little grape, parent to the future
wine, a son the fruit of his own son,
little father I ransom with my life.

Answer 1

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In analyzing any poem it is good to look first at structure and then at content. Here we see the poem is broken down into three parts essentially, the father buried in the sky, the father buried underground, and the father buried in the author's heart. This structure could help you in structuring your analysis of the poem.

What I felt reflected in this poem are essentially the different ways we view death. The transcendent, the physical, and the emotional. Transcendent being our belief regarding the soul after death whether it be heaven or some other place, physical meaning the actual body that is buried, and the emotional represented by the pain or grief that we carry with us in our hearts and minds. Looking at the authors descriptions of these three places is key in unlocking the meaning of this poem.

Answer 2

The death of his father is forever in his mind and heart, he uses it to fully understand how valuable his own life is, then in the end he talks about how its a cycle. srry it could be vague but i could write an essay on it :P

Can you gimme an opinion on my poem?

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