Clifton's Criticism Towards My Father

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mother even though he did not rarely had any money to give. Throughout the poem the daughter showed criticism towards her father. Throughout the poem words such as bills, payday, rich, pocket, do and accounting were used as other words to describe money as an extended metaphor in the poem. (Clifton, forgiving my father) Although the story was centered around forgiveness, money was still a large theme of the poem. It was made very clear that the major reason for the daughter despising her father was due to the low money he brought home to her and her mother. The daughter claimed that there will never be enough time for her father to pay all the debt he owed to his family. Poverty has played a major role in this particular story of a relationship

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