I ASK MY MOTHER TO SING

CONNOTATIONS

• Personification:"I've never been in Peking, or the Summer Palace, nor stood on the boat on Kuen Ming Lake.
• It shows personification by him saying that he's never been to those places or hasn't done anything at the lake.

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CONNOTATIONS

WHAT COULD THE TITLE MEAN?

• It could mean that a child wants his mom to sing
• So he asks her to sing

ATTITUDE

• The tone of the poem, is positive
• Its positive because they are singing in the memory of his father, and remembering those good times
• Even tho they are in sorrow they are having good memories by enjoying what they used to sing together

LITERAL MEANING

• Two ladies begining to sing
• Mother, daughter sing like in past
• Father used to play, is dead
• He liked playing his accordian
• Nevr been perking, or gone to Summer palace

LITERAL MEANING

• Never been on a boat
• Started raining at Kuen Ming Lake
• People running away due to the rain
• Likes to listen to comfort
• How pain builds up

SHIFT

• The shift i think may have been on the beginning of the 3rd stanza i believe
• The shift happened, "But i love to to hear it sung;"
• Because after that he started to say in a way how he felt

LITERAL MEANING

• Releasing pain to only feel more
• Then calm down but still feel pain
• Mom and daughter cry
• But both continue to remember the happy times

MEANING OF TITLE, AGAIN

• Now that i have read and analyzed this poem
• The title means to me now that he just wants to remember his dad and so he asks his mom to sin
• Because maybe it was their favorite song to sing with his dad

THEME

• I think the theme is u never forget the ones you love, an appreciate the good times u had with them

CONNOTATIONS

• Similie:"If my father were alive, he would play his accordion and sway like a boat
• This shows similie by saying his father danced to the rhythm of his accordion like a boat sways
• Diction:"I've never been in Peking"
• It shows diction by choosing to using the word Pecking for Beijing

REFLECTION

• The poem spoke to me in many ways
• The first thing that i recognized was that it was about a kid who his father had died
• Also that he never really got to enjoy fun stuff with his dad
• The kid explains how he feels, he holds so much pain
• I appreciated in this poem, how you can always remember the good memories you have had with a special person

REFLECTION

• The author wrote this poem to talk about what he has been through
• I know this because Li-Young Lee actually lost his father many times due to politics
• His father was in prison for a long time due to political problems so him and his family fled China
• So i think his father died and they never saw him