"Elegy for My Fahter..." by Andrew Hudgins Flashcards

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elegy

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poem that laments the dead, but the subject is not actually dead in this poem

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theme

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  • death: death is the final voyage, there is no end or afterlife
  • relationships: not all relationships are good
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relationship between father and son

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  • not close
  • struggle with their beliefs about whether there is an afterlife and if they will meet again after death
  • maybe the elegy is really for the death of their relationship
  • the father has sureness, but the son does not which creates sureness. “one day i will life the telephone and be told that my father is dead”
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rhyme scheme

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not a regular rhyme scheme

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unrhyming and has no regular meter

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free verse

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son’s thoughts about his dad’s belief

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convinced his ship’s gone down

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the ______ thinks these two will be reunited one day while the _____ isn’t so sure

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father; son

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