5/19/2023 0 Comments Blessing the boats cliftonAfter putting all of the pieces together, I think Lucille Clifton is this man’s granddaughter. She is talking about what he looked like, how he acted, and what he did. She is in the present day writing this about her grandfather. I think the writer or speaker of this poem is Lucille Clifton. I found that lumbering mean slow or awkward motion. In this poem, I had to look up the meanings of a few words I did not know. The writer imagines him singing and tells that his granddaughter writes poems about him. He has kids that call him papa and a wife that is sighing at him. The fifth set of lines just say, “give him an old guitar/ give him a bottle of booze” (85). This creature described moves slowly and has a great growl that is very loud. He has a bad odor that the narrator describes as “rank and bittersweet as bark” (85). It describes that he has hair of some sort that is grey. The first two lines talk about male who is pretty big because he can’t even fit through a door to a parlor. As I read through the poem, I started with a basic literal level understanding of it. I don’t think this will talk about a real bear or else the title probably would have said Imagining A Bear. Just from the title, I think this poem might be someone thinking about a fake person or animal named bear. One of the poems in this section that I liked was the poem Imagining Bear.
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