Poem at Thirty – Nine – Alice Walker
POEM AT THIRTY - NINE ALICE WALKER Analysis: Poem at 39 by Alice Walker is a short free verse poem that is composed in a “stream of thought” style. Each line is short forcing the speaker a quick space. It is a first-person narrative what the speaker about her father. Lines -: 1 – 5 The first stanza introduces the reader, the speaker's father, this unknown parent and all the memories go around this parent is going to be the theme of poem. The poet begins by making clear that he deeply misses her father. “so tried” She (the poet) wishes that things has started out differently between them and that he had not been so put upon by life. Lines 6 -11 She relates her father with money and the writing of “deposit slips and checks” This gives a hint that finances were among the seasons her father was “so tried” when she was born. As a young child she had seen him troubled with money matters. Additionally, ...