Comparing My Father's Song 'And The Vacuum'

When someone leaves this earth and their soul goes to be judged, do people forgot those poor souls. If one truly loved and cared for someone, then that person is never forgotten. These two people a son and husband are mourning their loved ones and how significant they were in their lives. The father in “My Father’s Song” and the wife in “The Vacuum”, both show an important loved one that has influenced the narrator’s life. The father and wife both played an important role in the speaker’s life, one that can’t be so easily replaced and even in death they still live on somehow. The poem’s tone of the story also help to carry the feelings that the speaker has when they mention their memories about the people they mourn. The passing of …show more content…
For “My Father’s Song” it gives a tone of warmth and sympathy, he describes the environment and the feeling of the sand that he touches. In the first stanza it sets the way the father talks “His voice, the slight catch, the depth from his thin chest, the tremble of emotion in something he has just said to his son, his song:” (Ortiz, Lines. 3-7). While reading this poem I can imagine how the father tells his song by the the speaker’s description, his father puts his emotions in that song. In “The Vacuum” the tone has more of a depressed, silent, distraught, feeling the speaker is by himself alone with his thoughts speaking his mind. The speaker describes his current self and surroundings “The house is so quiet now The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet, Its bag limp as a stopped lun, its mouth Grinning into the floor, maybe at my Slovenly life, my dog-dead youth” (Nemerov, Lines. 1-5). The house is quiet which brings the mood down, and he uses words like slovenly and dog-dead to show just how sad and mixed his life is now with the passing of his wife. The speakers his very close to the heart by setting the tone to make the readers feel sympathy towards them, to show them the love they felt, and then how much they miss that loved

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