The Gift

chunwaihung
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80 posts		 Jun-15-04, 07:37 PM (PST)
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16. "RE: The Gift"
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   The poem expressed the care of the father towards the son. This kind of care is expressed by the scene of the father taking out the splinter from the son's feet.

The peaceful memory of the son represents his love of the old days. The pain of the spliter was gone for a long time, but the memory lasts. Only love makes the memory lasts, and readers can tell how the poet valued his memory with his father.

I agree with Michael Scot that only by the father doing the caring of the son teaches him how to treat others nicely.

chunwaihung
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80 posts		 Jun-18-04, 07:48 PM (PST)
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4. "RE: The Gift"
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   This poem is very heart-warming. I remember a similar moment like that in the poem with my father. I was about 6 or 7 and I was crying because of the pain in my feet. My father used those sewing needle to take out the splinter.
Interesting enough, the poem is only about a page long, and it gave me so many "text-images".

However, I don't quite understnad why the son in the poem kissed his father at the end (84). Somewhere before or after the poem it mentioned if a kid was given something keep, he will give a kiss in return. Maybe that's the reason.