Poems of Raymond Carver

Raymond woodcarvers My Fathers Life, explores the theme of breed-son relationships. turn sculpturer looks up to his initiate (especially when his start out made comebacks in vitality), he also wants to mulct from his fathers m both mistakes. Although he erotic loves his father, stonecutter was partly ashamed of his father throughout life. When urinateting a ride home, he pretends he lives at the neighbors house because he is embarrassed by his witness house. He does non tear down like the fact that he is named after his father. Unfortunately Carver does not know any other life, and ends up alike to his father: roaming from townsfolk to town working and struggling with alcoholism. From my perspective, the screen is both an analysis of Carvers father and his mistakes, as well as an analysis of how Carver himself did not do much to puree and avoid the same mistakes he so easily identifies in his father. Perhaps the father is partly to blame. He did not devise his son to become more(prenominal) successful. When Carver writes the poem close his fathers picture, he says, Father, I love you/ yet how can I say thank you, I who cant hold my liquor any/and dont even know the places to search .\nI identify with Carver in that it is a grapple to learn from others mistakes when it is the only life one knows. I project an friendship that lacks ambition well(p) as his father forrader him did. Although their family and friends love them just as Carver loved his father, my acquaintance and his father follow tie-up jobs just to get by. I could write an essay chronicling the acquaintances upbringing and how it different from the more pushy educatees in my grade. It was clear that this student was aiming to settle for his present levels of achievement, perchance because he gave up on making something more of himself. I remember him saying in high school that it is not worth it to try to get good grades and go to college, because a college educat ion is not requirement in life and that no one in ou...