Poem To My Son Peter/Whom I Have Hurt A Thousand Times By Meinke

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The entire poem had the same type of diction; the type of diction in this poem was colloquial diction. Meinke wrote “this is a poem to my son Peter / whom I have hurt a thousand times” (“(untitled)” 1-2). When I read those two lines, I immediately picture the speaker getting up in front of a group of people to explain what he did to his son. Throughout the entire poem you feel like someone is talking to you about a horrible experience, or you feel like a friend is telling you this story. The poem’s horrible experience is talking about the parent and how the parent abused the child. The parent believed the child knew he was perfect and could handle being beat up. Meinke used this type of diction to prove that abuse happens every single day and

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