Analysis Of My Father's Love Letters By Yusef Komunyakaa

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"My Father's Love Letters" by Yusef Komunyakaa tells the story of a broken, dysfunctional family. The son is the narrator who captures the complicated dynamic of his family's relationships. The son is seemingly empathetic of his father's illiteracy and violent tendencies, though he doesn't enable this behavior, and he admires his father for his skills. The son, also, is happy that his mother has left for her own good to escape the abuse of his father. Komunyakaa utilizes the perspective of the son of a broken home to force the reader to critically consider the adversities the father faced. Komunyakaa uses imagery as a way to imply certain characteristics of both the mother and father in this poem. The father is inferred to be a hardworking

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