Analysis Of The Poem 'A Story' By Li-Young Lee

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When children are little, they often view their parents as gods, holding them up on a pedestal to the point where they believe that they can do no wrong. However, as children get older, they begin to gradually realize that their parents aren't as perfect as they once thought, a realization that, no doubt, the parents dread. In the poem A Story, the author, Li-Young Lee, tells of a young boy asking his father to tell him a story, but the father cannot seem to come up with one. This leads to the father thinking of how negatively this could affect his relationship with his son in the future. A Story's third person limited omniscient point of view combine with the strategic structure of the poem to efficiently convey all of the fear and emotions that the father had in a single moment.
Li-Young uses a unique point of view in the poem to help the reader better understand the father's emotions while still maintaining the story of the poem. A Story's third person limited omniscient point of view uses a narrator to tell the story however, the father's …show more content…
Each period of time is separated into several stanzas. Each stanza has a slightly different tone. The lack of rhyme scheme makes the poem have a more story-like feel. The structure also helps the fact that a single moment lasts for the whole poem, translate to the reader.
In A Story, Li-Young Lee uses several literary techniques to help better convey to the reader the complex emotions of the father. The father seems to overreact to the fact that he can't answer his son's simple, innocent question while his son seems to think nothing of it. Li-Young utilizes the poem's third person limited omniscient point of view to allow a narrator while simultaneously revealing the thoughts of the father. A Story's structure assists the reader in distinguishing between the present and future periods of the
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