A Dark and Disparate Deliberat

“...Parched years that I have seen

That may be hers appear: foul, lingering

then further speculates on the pain, hardships and misfortunes of her notional life to come,

“Or, fed on hate, she relishes the sting

Of others’ agony; perhaps the cruel

Bride of a syphilitic or a fool.”

The rhyming scheme within the poem, when recognized as a Shakespearean sonnet, implements i

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Then extends his deliberation to the “Parched years that [he has] seen” and envisions the worst. Potent verbs such as: “concealed,” “seaweed snarled,” “relishes,” “desire none,” and “sour” and descriptive adjectives as “coldest,” “slow,” “tolerant and bland,” “foul, lingering,” and “cruel” all add to the same effect and increases the emphasis of a strong bias in the poem. When reading the poem, I distinctly felt heavy and weighted down, as though the burden of Kees’ pessimistic deliberations was transferred directly onto my own consciousness during those moments of reading. The contempt he has for even the theorization of someday begetting a daughter is immense.

Kees’ application of affective words, particularly graphic verbs and vivid adjectives, proves to assist his reading audience in developing a true sense of the magnitude of his aversion. t in recitation, but is difficult to distinguish on the first read through to the untrained eye. It is also laid out in chronological order. I extremely liked the poem and intend to seek out more poetry by Mr.

“For My Daughter” is not a comfortable poem to read and is actually quite bitter and

spiteful in temperament, yet it is also creative and amply expressive in consideration of its length

a relative brevity of depiction. The pattern of the initial two groups is contained within six lines, in which the first four lines rhyme every other line and the last two lines coincide with each other. The two concluding lines of the

poem also rhyme with one another.

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Approximate Word count = 587
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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