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This essay discusses two poems. The two poems chosen to compare a common theme running through both works is parenting. Parenting is viewed and commented upon from two very different perspectives by Ben Jonson in “On my First Son” (77) and Weldon Kees’ “For My Daughter” (280).
The two poems chosen to compare a common theme running through both works is parenting. Parenting is viewed and commented upon from two very different perspectives by Ben Jonson in “On my First Son” (77) and Weldon Kees’ “For My Daughter” (280). On one hand Jonson discusses his son who died from plague, morning his loss, whereas Kees is very dark and somber in describing who a reader may think to be his daughter but the surprising end shows his revulsion for any child as he cannot bear to have one.
In the poem “For My Daughter,” (280), in which Kees at once expressed a ache for and loathing from a daughter of his own, even if it appears that the whole poem has been a scathing ‘conjecture’, the descriptions are presented so powerfully that the reader is left shocked with the end which not only is paradoxical but also embittered to a large extent. On the other hand Jonson’s poem “On my First Son” (77) is the final farewell to his beloved son, and through this poem he is trying to cope with the tragedy of losing one’s child. The emotions run deep, with Jonson calling his son the best piece of poetry.
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