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The soldier's father read the poem on BBC radio in 1995 in remembrance of his son, who had left the poem among his personal effects in an envelope addressed 'To all my loved ones'. The poem's first four lines are engraved on one of the stones of the Everest Memorial, Chukpi Lhara, in Dhugla Valley, near Everest. Reference to the wind and snow ...
Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy" had very dark tones and imagery including death and suicide, in addition to the Holocaust. Plath wrote about her father's death that occurred when she was eight years old and of her ongoing battle trying to free herself from her father. Plath's father, Otto Plath, had died from complications after his leg amputation.
Distill’d from limbecks foul as hell within, Applying fears to hopes and hopes to fears, Still losing when I saw myself to win! What wretched errors hath my heart committed, Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never! How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted, In the distraction of this madding fever! O benefit of ill! now I ...
Father’s Day Poem Roses are red, Violets are blue, You’re my dad and I will forever cherish you. —Unknown 32. Grateful I’m glad you’re my dad, You’re the best role model I could have.
"Anecdote for Fathers" (full title: "Anecdote for Fathers, Shewing how the practice of Lying may be taught" ) is a poem by William Wordsworth first published in his 1798 collection titled Lyrical Ballads, which was co-authored by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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The poem is divided into six quatrains, all in iambic tetrameter. The first quatrain introduces the subject of love of self in the voice of an omniscient narrator; the language is highly stylised. The second quatrain is the much simpler speech of a little boy expressing his thoughts on love of God, of others, and of nature.
How parasocial relationships explain our emotional attachment to "the characterization of a warm, supportive and unconditional and loving fatherly relationship."